Senior Application Engineer
Cadence Design Systems
- Cambridge
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support customers at the leading edge of functional verification using Cadence tools.
- Proactive visits to customer sites, mainly in the UK and Ireland but occasionally across Europe, to develop and maintain relationships
- Deliver customer training classes and technical update presentations
- Develop skills/knowledge to become a product specialist, able to provide expert consultancy and work directly on customer verification projects
- Working independently, but collaborating with the other AEs and wider Cadence community to solve problems, define methodologies and deliver results
- Liaise directly with sales team to identify opportunities to proliferate Cadence products
- Communicate customer requirements and feedback from support engagements to the Engineering and Marketing organizations for product direction / improvements
- Deliver technical presentations to all levels within an organization
- Education: BEng in electronic engineering or equivalent
- At least 1-2 years of relevant industry experience
- Experience in SystemVerilog or VHDL Hardware Description Languages
- Experience in ASIC functional verification tools and flows
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and written
- Languages: fluent in English
- Problem solving skills, knowing when to ask for assistance
- Team orientation, self-starter, good judgement under pressure
- Prepared to travel and work at customer sites throughout Europe
- Experience with Cadence verification tools (Jasper, Xcelium, Verisium)
- Experience with SystemVerilog Assertions in Formal analysis
- Previous customer-facing roles (technical support or delivering training)
- Programming and scripting language experience (Tcl, Python preferred)
- Linux experience (Bash/C-Shell, and common POSIX utilities such as sed / awk / grep)
- Familiarity with source code management such as Git / Mercurial / Perforce