Firmware Engineer II

Full-time
BANGALOREvia Cadence CareersPosted Oct 6, 2026
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Technical skills

PythonAPI development

About this role

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Job Description

Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for -

  • Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers
  • Developing firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.
  • Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.
  • Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.
  • Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C +Verilog simulations)
  • Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards.

Required

Skills

  • Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.
  • Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.
  • Good Knowledge of C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE.
  • Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem.
  • Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting
  • Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers
  • We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

Before you apply

  • 1Which parts of your CV prove experience with Python and API development?
  • 2Which recent work examples would make your application stronger for this role?
  • 3What details from the original source listing should you confirm before applying?

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