Salary
≈ $118k – $269k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Dublin)
Seniority
Principal · 10+ years exp
Visa
Irish employment permits in 12 months: 14
Employment
Full-Time
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026. Cadence Design Systems scores B on the Alion truth index.
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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.
Backed by Sequoia Capital
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.
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Job Title: Design Engineering Architect
Location: Galway
Reports to: Design Engineering Architect
Job Overview:
Job Responsibilities:
- Architect solutions for the latest DDR controller features and customer requirements.
- Design RTL in a highly configurable and automated environment.
- Work in small project teams.
- Work across disciplines with Design Verification, Support, Delivery, Application Engineers, PHY design team, etc.
- Utilize Cadence’s Design Automation flow and IP development tools.
- Develop high speed circuits and low power features.
- Improve quality and efficiency and help refine development process for greater productivity of the team through automation and improved methods.
- Participate in an engineering team to advance our product.
Job Qualifications:
- Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years’ experience in microelectronics/EDA industry.
- Experience of Verilog RTL Design essential.
- Experience of Metric Driven Verification (MDV) essential.
- Experience of Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis essential.
- Experience of SoC Architecture and Development essential.
- Experience of Technical Team leadership essential.
- Excellent oral and written English essential.
- Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Additional Skills/Preferences:
- Experience of AMBA protocols such as CHI, AXI, AHB & APB preferred.
- Experience of SystemVerilog for design preferred.
- Experience of Quality processes, such as ISO-9001 & ISO-26262 preferred.
Check what we can offer you:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday per year
- Private Medical and Dental plans, Income Protection and Life Insurance
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy
- 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- The opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work© & Fortune 100 organization
Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Travel: 10%
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