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Principal Product Engineer, Synthesis

📍 Location
San Jose
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
July 15, 2026

About the Role

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Seeking a highly motivated engineer who can drive improvement to Cadence’s synthesis and place & route products from a design perspective. The position provides an excellent opportunity to work closely with the R&D team to define the roadmap of the products.

Job responsibilities:

+ Perform Product Engineering work for Genus Synthesis Solution (Genus), a logic synthesis software used for synthesizing a design described in a high-level language into logic gates, to achieve best-in-class Power, Performance & Area (PPA) for latest digital ASICs

+ Understand the internal flow within the Genus for newly developed features and verify the correctness and perform experiments to determine an optimal solution

+ Solve new and challenging problems in physical aware synthesis space with the goal to bridge the gap between logic synthesis and pl...

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