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Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally and in Brazil and is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.\nAs a Software Engineer II: R&D Hardware Verification, you will be part of HSV in the SVG group in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The HSV group works with Palladium, the best HW Emulator in market. To understand more on what we do, you can visit Palladium website. Working at Cadence is very dynamic, fast-paced, and integrated with other teams all around the world.\n Job Description:\nDevelopment of Firmware for a highly parallel distributed system.\nDevelopment, Testing, validation, deployment, debugging of Firmware of Palladium Emulation system.\nYou will be part of Research and Development (R&D) to build, maintain our next generation Emulation system.\nCustomer support and Creation of tools for debugging system failures is also part of job.\nRequirements:\nComplete Computer Engineering or Bachelor’s in computer science/Computer Engineering with 2+ years’ experience in relevant field..\nKnowledge and experience with Object-oriented programming.\nKnowledge on advanced data structures and algorithms (graph algorithm + basics).\nKnowledge of C++/Python programming language.\nKnowledge of Linux Operating System.\nKnowledge with Unix environment management.\nVery good spoken and written English and Portuguese.\nNice to have:\nMaster with Computer Science is a plus.\nExperience developing software using Perforce version control systems.\nExperience with scripting environments - Tcl and Python.\nKnowledge/Experience with simulation and/or emulation.\nKnowledge/Experience EDA and VLSI design, including Verilog and VHDL languages.\nKnowledge of Linux Kernel, Kernel drivers, Linux setup, Linux build.\nKnowledge of Agentic AI.\nKnowledge of Ethernet, InfiniBand and/or RoCE.\nAdditional Job Details:\nEmployment category: CLT\nEmployment term: 40 hours/week.\nCompetitive benefits.\nLocation: Av Contorno 5800, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil.\nAbout Cadence Design Systems:\nCadence is the only company that provides the expertise and tools, IP, and hardware required for the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to systems. 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