Senior Firmware Engineer

About the Company

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence's employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique One Cadence – One Team culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success.
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests.
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

About the Role

Location: Bangalore

BE/BTECH/ME/METCH or Equivalent Degree

Design Engineer II

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team of experienced engineers developing physical layer IP's for industry-standard high-speed serial-link protocols. The successful candidate will ideally be a highly motivated self-starter who can work independently to complete assigned tasks and collaborate with other members to achieve project milestones. It is expected that the candidate will contribute during all phases of firmware development for high speed SERDES - from architecture development to implementation, verification, testing and customer deployment.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with PHY digital and mixed signal architects to figure out the details of FW functions and sequences.
• Contribute during firmware architecture development and implementation of the defined firmware features.
• Help to build system level prototype control software to develop/validate adaptation, equalization, and control algorithms for high speed SERDES.
• Implement assigned FW features and work closely with verification [simulation] and validation team to ensure the functionality and robustness of the implemented features.
• Support FuSa compliant firmware development.
• Work closely with verification and validation team to develop and execute test plans for FuSa compliant firmware.
• Support of Validation team during electrical and system characterization during post-silicon testing.
• Identify any FW and HW related functionality and performance issues and implement any necessary FW improvements to address these issues.
• Support Product Engineering, System Validation and Design team to debug IP issues during customer deployment of the IP and provide hot fixes.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to firmware design, development, bug fixes and compliance testing.

Qualifications

B.Tech with 4yrs or M.Tech with 3 yrs in Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Required Skills

• Solid programming knowledge in C/C++ and Python
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Understanding of wireline communication principles and digital signal processing techniques is a plus
• Knowledge in mixed signal circuit design is a plus
• Experience with silicon validation process and debug is a plus
• Experience with digital verification environment and tools is a plus
• Understanding of FuSa compliance is a plus