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

Cadence Design Systems Inc. is looking for a motivated Lead Application Engineer: Digital Design - Synthesis & Implementation to work with us in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

As a Lead Application Engineer: Digital Design - Synthesis & Implementation you will work with Digital and Signoff Group, providing technical support, enabling customers to effectively deploy our industry-leading technology, focusing on logical and physical implementation products, and deploying technology using tools such as Genus, Modus, Innovus, Conformal, or Tempus.

You will be on a team working with our customers to understand their needs, guide the best technologies and methodologies to enable their success, and produce innovative solutions to address our customers most challenging problems.

Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally and in Brazil and is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.

In addition to the more than 30 global workplace awards throughout 2024, Cadence was also recognized as one of Forbes World's Best Workplaces for Women and has received the 2025 Human Rights Campaign Equality 100 Award as a workplace leader for LGBTQ+ employees.

Job Description:

• Work together with global peers on diverse teams collaborating on the newest technologies.

• Lead projects and junior engineers

• Collaborate with customer engineer's teams to verify problems, create solutions tests, and deliver final resolutions.

• Understand the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence's solutions.

• Develop collateral in support articles and application notes that customers and coworkers can use to excel in their responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Complete Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and related areas.

• Good RTL understanding (Verilog or VHDL).

• Exposure with Synthesis or Place and Route methodologies or signoff timing.

• Exposure to microelectronics and or EDA, with experience on IC front or backend flows.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  Good problem-solving skills.

• A strong interest in contributing to customer success with related technical interest in EDA, HDL's, and Logic Design.

• Experience in scripting languages such as TCL and Python.

• Proved participation on IC Tape outs.

• Knowledge of Cadence digital tools would be a plus.

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. For more information, access http://www.cadence.com

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