Salary
$161k – $299k per year
Location
In office (San Jose)
Seniority
Principal · 10+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
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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.
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
The Tensilica Products Group of Cadence is a leading provider of processor IP for audio, vision, and AI applications in embedded platforms. We are looking for a skilled, creative Software Engineer to help design, build, and improve our processor generator, processing systems, and supporting infrastructure. In this role that involves software and systems engineering, you will work across the full product life cycle: analyzing user needs; designing and developing control components, backend systems, database interfaces, supporting web applications; and automated testing. You will be working with our processor generator engineering team and interacting with several other teams. This is a great opportunity for a systems/infrastructure/software engineer to make major contributions in a core team that develops and operates parts of our infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain
Control systems for driving build systems of multiple products and supporting infrastructure
Infrastructure components for interacting with other databases, systems, and APIs
Web REST API servlets that support remote product functionality connecting to systems and databases
Automated systems for importing order information into live build and delivery systems
Web applications supporting both customers and internal infrastructure
Manage product release branches in source control systems like perforce and git
Design and evolve SQL and other databases to support product functionality and internal management systems
Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of designs within time and cost constraints
Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, upgrade interfaces, and improve performance
Engineer tests and integrate features into new releases; support application teams during test phases
Collaborate with marketing, applications, and order processing teams to streamline delivery and management systems
Supporting delivery system operations, and automating fulfillment and those delivery systems to reduce the need for manual processing
Requirements
Master’s degree in computer science or a related field + 7 years of related experience, or Bachelor’s degree + 10 years of related experience
Strong programming skills in Java, Perl, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and shells
Strong experience building database driven production systems in Java, Perl, Python etc.
Experience building Java and React web applications that interact with SQL databases based on REST services
Experience architecting and configuring web and application servers (particularly Tomcat)
Experience designing and developing SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience designing / building test systems for web and infrastructure systems
Experience with Jenkins or equivalent and dashboarding systems like Grafana
Strong problem-solving skills, creativity, and ability to take initiative
Strong communication skills and the ability to lead, and work with other teams
Fluency working with and scripting tasks on Windows and Linux systems
Strong understanding of operating systems and computer architecture
The annual salary range for California is $161,000 to $299,000. 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.
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