Lead Product Engineer: SoC Verification

Description

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• Work directly with semiconductor design and verification teams to deploy Portable Stimulus methodologies in complex SoC programs.

• Help debug difficult generation and solver issues involving constraints, resources, execution ordering, and scenario realization.

• Investigate real-world modeling challenges that arise in large system-level PSS environments.

• Collaborate closely with Cadence R&D to diagnose tool issues, influence new features, and improve PSS standard

• Help define and refine methodologies for scalable system-level verification.

• Develop reference models, internal knowledge, and best practices used by both customers and Cadence field teams.

• Support advanced system-level verification use cases including:

  software-driven verification

  device programming flows

  reuse between simulation, emulation, and post-silicon

  integration with virtual platforms and firmware environments

• Contribute to emerging AI-assisted verification flows built around PSS models.

Requirements:

• Complete Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related areas.

• Experience in SoC verification, validation, or verification methodology

• Strong hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM or embedded / bare metal environments

• Solid understanding of constrained-random verification and system-level test generation

• Experience debugging complex verification environments

• Strong programming or scripting skills (C/C++/Python or similar)

• Ability to work directly with engineering teams to solve difficult technical problems

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to Portable Stimulus (PSS) or interest in learning it

• Experience with Perspec or other PSS tools

• Experience working with complex SoC subsystems and protocols such as PCIe, DDR, networking, or ARM-based SoCs

• Experience with embedded software programming and bare-metal environments

• Familiarity with emulation, virtual platforms, or post-silicon validation

• Experience developing verification methodology or reusable verification libraries

Additional Job Details:

• Employment category: CLT.

• Employment term: 40 hours/week.

• Competitive benefits.

• Location: Av Contorno 5800, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Cadence is the only company that provides the expertise and tools, IP, and hardware required for the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to systems. We enable 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.

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