Job Title:
Post Silicon Validation Engineer II
About Us
Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. We apply our Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware, and IP that turn design concepts into reality. This strategy is supplemented by AI-augmented development practices throughout all our organizations to empower our team to focus on creative problem-solving and innovation. Our customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products—from chips to boards to systems—for dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, and health. Join us and be part of a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
We invite you to join a growing and innovative IP team dedicated to building best-in-class digital and mixed-signal IP solutions. You will work alongside seasoned professionals developing high-performance IP across protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet. In this role, you will be integral to the organization’s efforts to support post-silicon bring-up and characterization.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluation of Cadence’ cutting-edge designs in silicon in a lab environment
- Development of test methodologies and improvements to current test practices for validating silicon designs against various industry standards and internal specifications
- Devise script infrastructure and write scripts for configuring the device, test automation, and data analysis
- Collaborate with several groups such as analog designers, digital designers, system designers in devising experiments, drive data collection, and present results analysis
- Test Report generation for internal and customer consumption
- Support customer demonstration of Cadence’ products and Application Engineers in supporting customers issues and debugs
- AI Incorporation: Leverage AI-powered tools and assistants to enhance productivity, improve decision making, and maintain high-quality customer deliverables. Apply AI-powered analytics tools to extract insights, identify patterns, and generate actionable recommendations from complex datasets.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science, or related engineering subject area
- 1+ years of validation experience and in high-speed analog/mixed signal designs
- Experience with high-speed test equipment such as Bit-Error Rate Tests (BERT), Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analyzers, and Network Analyzers.
- Solid software programming/scripting experience in languages such as Python or similar object-oriented languages.
- Candidate must be a self-starter, takes initiative, strong communication, great teammate

Cadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application of computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design of silicon to systems. Our design solutions, based on Cadence’s Intelligent System Design™ strategy, are essential for the world’s leading semiconductor and systems companies to build their next-generation products from chips to full electromechanical systems that serve a wide range of markets, including hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics. In 2024, Cadence was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the world’s top 100 best-managed companies. Cadence solutions offer limitless opportunities—learn more at www.cadence.com.