Sr Principal Application Engineer

Full-time
NOIDAvia Cadence CareersPosted Jun 3, 2025
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Technical skills

C++API development

About this role

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Description / Summary

Join our elite North America hardware application engineering team, and work closely with the best AEs, PEs and R&D in EDA industry. Join a top class company that has been listed in Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the World's Best Workplaces™ for the eleven years in a row!

You will report directly into the North America Verification Field Applications Engineering (FAE) Team, and be co-located in India alongside our R&D teams. You will be a leading product expert on advanced FPGA based prototyping focusing on Cadence’s Protium X3 system .

Your focus will be to work on key campaigns in North America, driving differentiated HW emulation solutions at our industry leading semiconductor and system companies and you will form a key bridge between our customers, North America AEs and R&D teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assume technical leadership for Protium compiler flow and become the go-to expert for the rest of the North America field AE team .
  • Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced Protium based flows to secure design wins .
  • Champion the customer needs and work closely with R&D in India to develop competitive and creative technical solutions.
  • Strong experience in FPGA based emulation or prototyping.
  • Experience in portioning for Xilinx FPGA’s and analyze bottlenecks to performance.
  • Knowledge of interface bring up on FPGA platforms like PCIe and DDR
  • Experience with SystemVerilog, VHDL, Verilog, C/C++/SystemC
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills,  with the ability to effectively bridge communication channels between external customers, NA FAE team and internal R&D teams.

Strong teamwork skills

  • 12+ years industry experience
  • We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

Before you apply

  • 1Which parts of your CV prove experience with C++ 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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