Lead Software Engineer - Partitioning and Optimization Algorithms

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. The Protium Prototyping Platform is part of the Cadence Dynamic Duo that has been a huge success with our customers.

With Cadence Protium prototyping platforms, design and verification teams can rapidly bring up a prototype and provide a pre-silicon platform for early software development, system validation, and hardware regressions. Cadence is the leader in hardware emulation-prototyping technologies and products. Cadence's FPGA-based prototyping system platform sets standards on the performance-utilization, the ease of use, and the congruence with emulation models.

This is a Full-time position. The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for development of new features and algorithms to improve the Protium Platform mainly in partitioning and optimization algorithms. The Lead Software Engineer will accomplish this by carefully discussing the implementation specification with the team spread across different geographies.

The candidate is also expected work with technical support lead and key customers to resolve implementation or usage issues. Qualification and Requirements Bachelors in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 4 years of related experience, or Masters with a minimum of 2 years of related experience, or PhD with a minimum of 0 years of related experience Ideal candidate should have coursework in Algorithms, Data Structures etc.

The candidate should have strong coding skills in C++ and be well versed with at least one other scripting language like Perl and Python. The annual salary range for California is $114,800 to $213,200. You may also be eligible to receive incentive

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