Principal Software Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.  Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence’s employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique “One Cadence – One Team” culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

Job responsibilities:

Summary

If you have a well-established knowledge of SoC, Firmware, drivers, applications, and you would like to work on challenging projects involving state-of-art design IPs, this is an offer for you! As Software Engineer you will be responsible for the driver development, model development, virtual prototyping, and testing. You will implement, optimize, and verify the following:

• Design, development, testing and validation of Bare Metal drivers and Linux drivers

• Upstreaming and maintenance of open-source Linux drivers
• Design and development of System C/TLM LT models
• End customer support on software drivers, applications, and system C models

Requirements

• BE/BTech MTech/MS with 6-10 years of relevant experience

• Software Architecture, Design, and programming in C, System C, Python and C++

• Understanding of microcontrollers and architecture of a system-on-chip

• Booting sequence, board support package, embedded firmware for customer ASIC and platforms

• Ability to build and automate the test flow

• Knowledge of scripting languages (bash, perl, python)

• Knowledge of hardware simulation environments

• Understanding of Verification IP tools and components

• Debugging, optimization, bug-fixing of software for ARM/RISC5/Xtensa architectures

• Linux kernel understanding and kernel driver knowledge

• Understanding of the software verification process and generation of test reports

• Ability to raise any technical and/or quality issues with the team and management

• Good communication at high technical level with firmware and hardware engineers

• Ability to work in a team spread over multiple time-zones

Beneficial Requirements

• Familiar ISO9001 and Functional Safety/ISO 26262,

• Familiar with MISRA C 2012 or HIS,

• Expert on coding guidelines, software development process and technical documentation

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