676,377open jobs
39,196companies
102,149added this week
Browse all
Salary
$186k – $345k per year
Location
In office (San Jose)
Seniority
Architect · 17+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
Overview
Company
Impact
Profile match
Cadence Design Systems is an American software company founded in 1988 that supplies the electronic design automation tools engineers use to design and verify integrated circuits. Its products cover digital synthesis and place-and-route, custom and analogue design, circuit simulation with the Spectre and Virtuoso families, functional verification, and increasingly system-level analysis for packaging, thermal behaviour and computational fluid dynamics. Headquartered in San Jose and listed on Nasdaq, it also licenses design intellectual property such as processor and interface blocks, and competes primarily with Synopsys and Siemens EDA.

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

Location

San Jose, CA and Austin, TX

Job Description

Responsibilities

As a Design Verification Team Director, lead and run the Processor Verification team, you will be responsible for the verification of microprocessor cores and their peripherals

Relevant experience in-order/out-of-order CPU cores and memory subsystem strongly preferred

Crafting verification plans and executing them to verify highly complex CPU designs.

You will implement simulation or emulation testbenches, assembly/C language diagnostics, assertion checkers or coverage monitors to meet target verification goals.

You will be responsible for coverage collection and closure

You will work closely with cross-functional teams (DV/Arch/Design/FW) to identify coverage scope

Tracking and reporting the work of 7-10 engineers

Required Skills and Experience:

17+ years of design verification experience

BS (or higher) in EE/Computer Engineering

Proven experience at leading/managing team.

Strong managerial, leadership and interpersonal skills

Excellent knowledge of computer architecture and design verification fundamentals

Thorough understanding of System Verilog, UVM, and other programming languages to build flexible and reusable complex testbenches

Exposure to scripting languages like Perl, Unix shell or similar languages

Experience with assembly language programming required

Experience with Formal Verification will be a plus

Experience with the development of fully automated flows

Experience with Gate Level Simulations

Excellent written and oral communication skills necessary

Knowledge of processor verification required

The annual salary range for California is $185,500 to $344,500. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

Free account
Stop reading job ads. Get the ones that fit.
One free account turns this page into a shortlist built around your stack, your level and your pay.
Match on every job. Stack, seniority, pay and location, scored against your profile.
676,377 open roles. Read straight off company career pages, refreshed every day.
Unlimited applications. Every one you send is tracked in one place, on-site or on a company board.
3 tailored CVs a month. Rewritten for the exact job you are applying to. Included free.
Create a free account Continue with Google
Free forever. No card. Under a minute.

Your match

How well do you fit this role?
Two answers are enough for a real match. No account needed.
Check my fit
Answers stay in this browser until you create an account.

Recommended for you based on this role

Similar stack
Same company
San Jose
DevOps Engineer 3 hours ago
$82k – $171k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • New Castle
Python
Java
SQL
Ruby
Perl
DevOps
Terraform
OpenShift
Helm
Istio
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Service Mesh
Tekton
Cybersecurity
Snyk
SonarQube
HashiCorp Vault
Checkmarx
Apply
$31k – $68k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Cluj-Napoca
Verilog
VHDL
Perl
Apply
$96k – $210k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Irvine
Python
C++
Perl
AI/ML
Copilot
ChatGPT
Apply
$70k – $131k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • United Kingdom • Spain
Python
Ruby
PowerShell
C#
Perl
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
C#
.NET
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
Apply
DFT Engineer 4 hours ago
$19k – $44k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tianjin
Python
Verilog
VHDL
Perl
Apply
$146k – $321k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Livonia
Python
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Embeddings
CrewAI
RAG
Knowledge Graph
DevOps
Rest API
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
$105k – $195k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Chips/EDA
Cadence Conformal
Apply
$106k – $198k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Chips/EDA
Cadence Allegro
Apply
$88k – $203k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Munich
Chips/EDA
Cadence Allegro
Cadence Sigrity
Apply
$26k – $55k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Python
C++
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
CrewAI
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Tool Use
DevOps
CI/CD
Vector
Chips/EDA
Cadence Palladium
Cadence Protium
Apply
Commodity Manager 6 hours ago
$149k – $216k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Apply
$73k – $133k per year • Remote • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles • San Jose • San Francisco • San Diego • Bellevue
Design
AutoCAD
Apply
$185k – $342k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
AI/ML
NVLink
Apply
$123k – $249k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Jose
Apply
$155k – $294k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco • San Jose
TypeScript
Design
Figma
Apply
See all jobs
This is one of many
676,377 more open roles from verified company boards, updated every day.