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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.Description / Summary Join our elite North America hardware application engineering team, and work closely with the best AEs, PEs and R&D in EDA industry. Join a top class company that has been listed in Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the World's Best Workplaces for the eleven years in a row! You will report directly into the North America Verification Field Applications Engineering (FAE) Team, and be co-located in India alongside our R&D teams. You will be a leading product expert on advanced FPGA based prototyping focusing on Cadences Protium X3 system . Your focus will be to work on key campaigns in North America, driving differentiated HW emulation solutions at our industry leading semiconductor and system companies and you will form a key bridge between our customers, North America AEs and R&D teams. Key Responsibilities Assume technical leadership for Protium compiler flow and become the go-to expert for the rest of the North America field AE team . Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced Protium based flows to secure design wins . Champion the customer needs and work closely with R&D in India to develop competitive and creative technical solutions. Strong experience in FPGA based emulation or prototyping. Experience in portioning for Xilinx FPGAs and analyze bottlenecks to performance. Knowledge of interface bring up on FPGA platforms like PCIe and DDR Experience with SystemVerilog, VHDL, Verilog, C/C++/SystemC Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively bridge communication channels between external customers, NA FAE team and internal R&D teams. Strong teamwork skills 12+ years industry experience Were doing work that matters. Help us solve what others cant. .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
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