Lead Design Engineer

About this role

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

Core Responsibilities

• Strategy and Architecture
• Verification Planning: Define the overall verification strategy, including the choice of methodology (typically UVM/SystemVerilog), tools, and infrastructure.

Testbench Architecture: Design scalable, reusable, and robust verification environments. This includes developing Bus Functional Models (BFMs), monitors, scoreboards, and checkers.

• Feature Extraction: Analyze architectural specifications to identify critical features and corner cases that require rigorous testing.
• Execution and Technical Leadership
• Development: Write complex test cases and sequences to achieve high functional coverage.
• Debug: Lead the root-cause analysis of complex design bugs, collaborating closely with design engineers to implement fixes.
• Constraint Random Testing: Implement constrained-random stimulus generation to explore the design space beyond directed tests.
• Formal Verification: Utilize formal tools to prove specific properties or find deep-seated bugs that simulation might miss.
• Metric Management
• Coverage Analysis: Monitor and analyze functional and code coverage metrics.
• Gate-Level Simulation (GLS): Oversee simulations on the synthesized netlist to verify timing and reset behavior.
• Sign-off: Define the "definition of done" and provide final technical approval for the verification phase.
• Soft Skills and Leadership
• Mentorship: Guiding junior engineers on coding standards and debugging techniques.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Acting as the primary technical point of contact between the design, architecture, and emulation teams.
• Project Management: Managing timelines, identifying risks in the verification schedule, and prioritizing tasks to meet project deadlines.

Required Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech or M.Tech/M.S. in Electronics, VLSI, or related field
• 4–6 years of hands-on DV experience in semiconductor/ASIC/SoC companies
• We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.