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.
