Principal Product Engineer - Virtual Protocols
AI summary of the role
This Principal Product Engineer role on the Virtual Protocols team drives field readiness and customer deployment of transaction-based acceleration and virtual emulation verification products for Cadence's Palladium and Protium platforms.
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What you’ll do
- Drive field readiness and customer deployment of Transaction Based Acceleration and Virtual Emulation-based System Verification products
- Use OS, kernel, and driver SW development expertise to support Cadence VirtualBridge products combining virtual machines with customer SOC designs on Palladium/Protium platforms
- Help customers utilize Accelerated Verification IPs and advanced APIs to accelerate pre-silicon SOC verification and system validation coverage
- Drive requirements and deployment of new protocol products and features in industry standard protocols like PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, USB, AMBA
What you’ll bring
- Bachelors in CS or EE with 7+ years experience, or Masters with 5+ years experience
- Protocol knowledge in PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, USB, or AMBA
- Software development skills in C/C++, Object Oriented programming, Linux Kernel/Driver Development
- Verification methodologies experience (UVM SystemVerilog, Virtual Prototyping SystemC, Portable Stimulus)
Technologies
Palladium · Protium · VirtualBridge · PCIe · CXL · Ethernet · USB · AMBA · UVM · SystemVerilog · SystemC · C/C++
About Cadence Design Systems
Provides EDA software, hardware emulation, design IP, and multiphysics simulation that semiconductor and systems companies use to design and verify chips, boards, and full electronic systems.
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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Business Overview Deliver Emulation and Prototyping assisted verification products using virtualization (SW) technologies to accelerate and shift left SW-driven pre-silicon verification of advanced SoC designs. Job Description This Principal Product Engineer position is with the Virtual Protocols Product Engineering Team, responsible for the successful field readiness and customer deployment of our Transaction Based Acceleration and Virtual Emulation-based System Verification products. This position presents exciting opportunities and challenges of becoming an expert in System Level Software Driven Verification use models that leverage advanced protocol engines operating on Cadence’s Palladium and Protium Emulation products to enable the critical shift-left of System Level
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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Business Overview Deliver Emulation and Prototyping assisted verification products using virtualization (SW) technologies to accelerate and shift left SW-driven pre-silicon verification of advanced SoC designs. Job Description This Principal Product Engineer position is with the Virtual Protocols Product Engineering Team, responsible for the successful field readiness and customer deployment of our Transaction Based Acceleration and Virtual Emulation-based System Verification products. This position presents exciting opportunities and challenges of becoming an expert in System Level Software Driven Verification use models that leverage advanced protocol engines operating on Cadence’s Palladium and Protium Emulation products to enable the critical shift-left of System Level SOC verification and Validation for Cadence customers. This position provides opportunities to expand your software, hardware, and advanced protocol knowledge while engaging with the world’s most advanced SOC customers. Team The Virtual Protocols Product Engineering team works closely with R&D, the Cadence Field team, and directly with key customers to identify product requirements. You will be an essential partner to the R&D team delivering product feature definition and product feedback. You [... source excerpt omitted ...] leveraged asset for the field and marketing teams to demonstrate our product’s performance, debugging, and functionality value. You will become a trusted advocate for top Cadence customers helping guide them to the best use of Cadence technologies while also capturing their needs back into R&D. As part of this team, your responsibilities will include a wide range of activities that will give you the opportunities to sharpen Cadence products and your technical skills across Software development, Hardware Design, debug tools and methodologies, and advanced protocol interfaces. This team is responsible for the following: Developing, Maintaining, and delivering feature-based trai [... source excerpt omitted ...] ce to customers and field teams enabling customer success using Cadence emulation platforms and products. Deploying new and emerging protocol products to bleeding-edge innovative customers working on advanced SOC and System designs Position The Virtual Protocol Principal Product Engineer has the opportunity to be an expert in many different areas based on their interests and career goals. Their responsibilities can be but are not limited to: Using expertise in OS, kernel, and driver SW development to support Cadence VirtualBridge products that combine a Virtual Machine running a production OS with the customer’s SOC Design running on Cadence’s Palladium emulation or Protium P
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