Principal Product Engineer
Cadence Design Systems24 hours ago
Cork, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive customer evaluations of Cadence Stratus HLS from initial scoping through production sign-off in partnership with field application engineers and sales teams.
- Resolve complex technical design issues for existing HLS customers and provide solutions that support platform adoption.
- Deliver hands-on training on HLS methodologies and tool features.
- Research emerging HLS capabilities, customer use cases, and AI-assisted design flows.
- Author product requirement specifications and refine functional specifications with product management and R&D.
- Define evidence-based feature requirements for the Stratus HLS tool flow and design methodology.
- Coordinate internal partners across product management, R&D, field application engineering, and solutions teams to align roadmap priorities.
- Represent customer needs in roadmap and planning discussions and provide feedback to improve product quality and reduce production risk.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline is required.
- A related master’s degree is strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of combined experience in hardware design, EDA applications engineering, product engineering, or a closely related field.
- Strong digital hardware design background targeting ASIC or FPGA, including hands-on RTL design experience.
- Working proficiency in C++ and ability to evaluate implementation-level technical trade-offs.
- Experience using hardware design and EDA tools in a Linux environment with scripted flows and command-line operation.
- Experience translating customer or stakeholder requirements into structured product or functional specifications.
- Track record managing technical engagements with external customers or users from evaluation through production adoption.
- Ability to influence technical direction across engineering, product, and field teams through clear, data-backed communication.
- SystemC knowledge is a significant advantage.
- Experience with HLS tools or methodologies such as Stratus HLS, Catapult, or Vitis HLS is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted hardware design flows, EDA field or solutions engineering, requirements management tools, Tcl scripting, and mentoring or technical training is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- 25 days of holiday per year.
- Private medical and dental plans, income protection, and life insurance.
- Group personal pension plan.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and gym subsidy.
- Five days of paid volunteer time per year.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Based in Cadence’s Cork, Ireland office with up to 15% travel, primarily for European customer engagements.
- Opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work and Fortune 100 organization.
About Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems builds electronic design automation (EDA) software, emulation/acceleration hardware, and reusable IP that help semiconductor and systems companies design, verify, and implement chips and electronic systems. It also develops computational engineering tools, including computational fluid dynamics and molecular modeling for drug discovery. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cadence is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker CDNS.