# Sr Principal Application Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Job Description Overview The Architect will serve as a technical leader within Cadence’s North America Field Applications Team, driving strategic customer engagements and influencing next-generation EDA & Agentic-AI solutions. This role demands exceptional technical depth, hands-on experience of design convergence, and the ability to align cross-functional teams toward delivering advanced design solutions for leading semiconductor companies. Key Responsibilities Technical Expertise: Lead technical engagements with customers and partners to achieve best-in-class PPA, working closely with design teams to meet customer success metrics, guiding adoption of Cadence’s digital implementation, signoff technologies and AgenticAI features across advanced nodes (3nm and below). Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with R&D and Product Engineering to influence tool enhancements based on real-world customer requirements. Innovation & Enablement: Drive complex benchmarks, flow optimizations, and deployment of cutting-edge methodologies for Synthesis, P&R, STA, IR Drop, and power/tim

- **Id**: 3908490
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cadence-design-systems-sr-principal-application-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T12:42:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2226
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EDA Software, Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4351
- **Name**: Cadence Design Systems
- **Domain**: cadence.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cadence>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 109
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.761
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 60
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Conformal** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T04:58:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 368 · green card filings: 176; Filings 12m: 368

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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