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About the Team
The Liberate Team within Cadenceās Custom IC & PCB Group (CPG) enables customers to adopt and deploy industryāleading Liberate Characterization Suite that power advanced semiconductor design flows. As a preāsales engineering group, we work at the intersection of technology, product strategy, and customer successāpartnering with R&D, product engineering, sales, and strategic customers worldwide.
This is a highāimpact, dynamic, and technical role where you will help shape customer outcomes, influence new product capabilities, and represent Cadence in critical deployment engagements.
Role Overview
As a Principal Application Engineer, you will lead product evaluations, deliver deep technical guidance on characterization methodologies, and support customers working at cuttingāedge technology nodes. You will help translate customer requirements into product direction by collaborating closely with the R&D and product teams.
You will also play a key leadership role within the team by mentoring junior engineers, guiding them on technical problemāsolving, methodology, and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical evaluations, proofsāofāconcept, and competitive positioning for the Liberate Characterization Suite.
- Work closely with R&D and product management to provide realāworld feedback and drive feature enhancements.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping them deploy advanced characterization and modeling flows.
- Debug complex customer issues and deliver actionable solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior team members, helping build internal expertise and technical depth.
- Deliver customer trainings, workshops, and technical presentations.
- Partner with Product, R&D and sales team to support business growth and strategic engagements.
Experience and Technical Skills Required
- 8ā10 years of industry experience in library characterization, modeling, or semiconductor design.
- Proven ability to mentor, guide, and support junior engineers.
- Strong IP characterization background and deep Liberty modeling expertise.
- Thorough understanding of Liberty formats (NLDM, CCS, ECSM, LVF, EM, Aging, etc.).
- Handsāon experience performing characterization using industryāstandard tools.
- Experience with industryāstandard circuit simulators (Spectre, HSPICE, etc.).
- Strong understanding of CMOS fundamentals, integrated circuit behavior, and advanced nodes (5nm, 3nm).
- Good knowledge of process variation, statistical characterization, and variationāaware modeling.
- Strong problemāsolving skills for debugging customer issues.
- Experience with Cadence Liberate and Cadence Spectre is a plus.
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