Job Title: Technical Support Engineer (GCS - Multiphysics System Analysis)

Organization: GCS Organization, MSA (Multiphysics System Analysis)

Role Summary: As a member of the GCS Organization for the MSA (Multiphysics System Analysis), you will partner with world-wide Cadence customers to provide post-sales technical consultation for IC level Power System analysis products, enabling them to implement cutting-edge designs.

Key Responsibilities & Activities:

Customer Engagement: Work closely with customers to understand and debug complex issues, enabling progress in design cycle phases.
Tool Leverage: Help customers leverage the latest tool capabilities and guide them with software implementation in their design methodologies.
Knowledge Contribution: Acquire breadth and depth of technical knowledge, gain exposure to latest industry design practices, and demonstrate expertise by authoring high-impact knowledge content.
Technology Evolution: Participate in the evolution of key technology solutions for pressing design problems.
Product Improvement: Work with product teams to identify and prioritize product improvement initiatives through timely feedback and observations.
Support & Satisfaction: Provide technical support for the Voltus product (from the MSA toolset) with focus on productivity and customer satisfaction.
Tool/Method Support: Support multiple tools/methods, requiring general domain knowledge and developing business experience.
Content Creation: Assist in creation of high-quality and impactful knowledge content in the MSA domain.
Independent Work: Work independently at Cadence or customer facilities to deliver quality results according to schedule requirements.
Problem Solving: Work on problems of moderate scope that may require analysis of situations, data, or tool problems.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree: Electrical / Electronics / Electronics and Communication / VLSI Engineering with 5-7 years related experience.
Master's Degree: 3-4 years of related experience.
PhD: 1 year of related experience.

Required Experience & Technical Skills:

Industry Experience: 3-7 years relevant industry experience in:
EMIR analysis
PDN analysis with digital signoff tools
Digital Physical implementation (as designer or methodology/flow expert)
Strong Background in:
Digital logic Design
CMOS logic Design
Power IR drop analysis
Circuit Design and Analysis
Digital and Behavioral simulation fundamentals related to IC and Package Design
Debugging Expertise:Debugging of Low power and multiple power domain analysis for chip power integrity sign-off.
Excellent debugging skills and ability to separate out critical from trivial issues.
Ability to solve interface-level problems emanating from IC Implementation side and System analysis side.
(Plus) Ability to debug Timing and thermal issues in relation to IR and EM.
Cadence Tool Knowledge:Understanding of Digital design toolsets (Genus / Innovus / Tempus / Conformal).
Knowledgeable of at least 50% of a given flow; detailed knowledge in one CDN tool, learning others.
Ability to analyze customer's environment and evaluate appropriate support solutions.
Learning competitive tools/technologies.
Hardware Description Languages (HDLs): Good understanding of VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog.
Scripting: Knowledge on TCL, Perl, or Python.

Required Behavioral Skills:

Communication: Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Relationship Building: Ability to establish close working relationships with both customer peers and management.
Problem Solving: Explore what's possible to get the job done, including creative use of unconventional solutions.
Collaboration: Work effectively across functions and geographies.
Integrity & Drive: Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity.