At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a Principal Product Engineer to lead silicon execution for large, complex SoCsfor our Emulation Products from first silicon through qualification, production ramp, and sustained manufacturing. This role owns product health across yield, reliability, quality, and manufacturing, working closely with design, test, foundry, and OSAT partners to deliver highquality silicon at scale.
This is a highly crossfunctional, handson leadership role for someone passionate about shipping robust, manufacturable silicon.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own firstsilicon bringup, characterization, and debug for large SoCs
- Drive yield learning and yield ramp into highvolume manufacturing
- Lead silicon reliability and qualification activities (JEDEC requirements)
- Analyze failures across test, design, process, and packaging drive root cause and fixes
- Define binning, guardbanding, and product readiness criteria
- Partner with foundries, OSATs, and manufacturing teams for production execution
- Support field quality, customer escalations, and longterm product health
- Act as a key technical leader across design, test, reliability, and operations teams
Job Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in product, yield, or silicon engineering
- Proven ownership of large, complex SoCs from bringup through production
- Strong experience with silicon debug, yield analysis, and manufacturing flows
- Handson exposure to reliability qualification and failure analysis
- Ability to lead crossfunctional teams and drive execution under schedule pressure
- Experience working with offshore manufacturing partners (e.g., Taiwan) is a plus
We're doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can't.
