# Firmware and Diagnostics Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Cadence Design Systems Inc. is looking for a motivated Firmware and Diagnostics Engineer to work with us in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.Cadence is de-facto leader in Semiconductor verification, implementation, Design and Verification IP, analog simulation, timing closure. Palladium is industry leading Emulation platform based on our proprietary hardware. Extensive runtime features for optimal use of Palladium boards, debugging hardware by trigger, dynamic waveform dump, and full vision wave dump are unique in emulation market. Conceptually Palladium is a supercomputer using up to multi thousands of processors to emulate hardware designs. This platform is used for debugging complex and large hardware designs and system on a chip. Job Description: Develop, validate, and support firmware and diagnostic software for complex hardware systems. Contribute to hardware bring-up, system validation, manufacturing and field diagnostics, and issue triage. Deliver well-defined technical tasks, debug issues using structured evidence, and collaborate effectively with firmware, hardware, produ

- **Id**: 161331
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cadence-firmware-and-diagnostics-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- **Countries**: BR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T12:42:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 75
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4002
- **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

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 40000
- **Max usd**: 96000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 769

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Palladium** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 75

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.499
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 75
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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