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

Cadence’s (www.cadence.com) products are used to design and build the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to system. Our technology enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create innovative products that transform the way people live, work, and play. Our products are used in mobile, consumer, cloud datacenter, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments.

The Cerebrus™ Intelligent Chip Explorer is the product that provides a machine learning-driven, automated approach to chip design flow optimization. This product has recently been launched and this is an opportunity to contribute to this product and drive its future roadmap.

The Cambridge Cerebrus™ team is primarily responsible for the infrastructure of the Cerebrus™ product. This involves the design of the application of the machine learning algorithms onto the customer flows thereby ensuring the best quality of results is achieved while making efficient use of all machine resources.

Cadence’s success is built upon its employee’s technical excellence within a supportive culture; voted as one of the Fortune 100 best companies to work every year for the last five years.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to work with the Digital Design and Signoff Group engineering team. You will be joining a small, expanding, exciting team responsible for innovating, designing, and developing key technology used within the Cerebrus™ product. The team is based in Cambridge, UK working within a global team.

Job Responsibilities:

The role’s day to day responsibilities cover development of the Cerebrus™ product within the group:

• Design, implementation and validation of new functionality to apply machine learning methods to digital design flows. Validation and analysis of these functionalities on benchmark designs to measure achieved improvements

• R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements

This job will suit applicants looking to further their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging environment. The applicant will be comfortable taking ownership of their code. There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out!

Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.

Job Qualifications:

• Good degree in computer science or other numerate discipline from a respected institution.

Required Skills

• Experience in SW development under Unix.

• Desire to understand and master the data structures, algorithms and interactions used within the digital flows of the worlds leading chip design companies

• The individual tenacity to investigate and debug complex data-driven reported issues

• Motivation to learn and adapt the use of the other digital flow tools: Genus™, Innovus™, Tempus™, etc.

• Fully contribute and engage within a small team to develop new innovative algorithms for challenging and hard to solve problems.

• Cerebrus is developed across multiple global sites (Cambridge UK, San Jose USA, Shanghai, India). Communication in English is required as well as an ability to communicate and collaborate in a distributed international team through us of online collaboration tools.

• Have fun competing for technical leadership in a technically challenging and innovative market.

• Good degree in computer science or other numerate discipline from respected institution.

Good To Have:

• Experience of SW development in any of TCL, Python, C/C++, Javascript, Unix scripting

• Any knowledge in electronic design automation.

Personality

Successful candidates will be:

• Inquisitive

• Interested in technical detail

• Excited by innovation

• Ability to work independently as well as contribute and communicate within the local and global team environment

  Check what we can offer you:

• Competitive salary

• 25 days holiday per year

• Private Medical and Dental plans, Income Protection and Life Insurance

• Group Personal Pension Plan

• Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy

• 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan,

• And much more, so do not hesitate to contact us!

Additional Information:

Cadence achieved a ‘Top 15’ ranking in the Great Place to Work awards for medium sized workplaces in the UK in 2022.

Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

B e proud and passionate about the work you do. Together, our One Cadence -- One Team culture drives our success.

We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

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Cadence plays a critical role in creating the technologies that modern life depends on. We are a global electronic design automation company, providing software, hardware, and intellectual property to design advanced semiconductor chips that enable our customers create revolutionary products and experiences.

Thanks to the outstanding caliber of the Cadence team and the empowering culture that we have cultivated for over 25 years, Cadence continues to be recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. 
Our shared passion for solving the world’s toughest technical challenges, our dedication to pushing the limits of the industry, and our drive to do meaningful work differentiates the people of Cadence.

Cadence is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, basis of disability, or any other protected class.

Cadence is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, basis of disability, or any other protected class.