Principal Product Validation Engineer

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

As PV engineer, this person will be responsible for product validation [quality engineering] with following activities:

• Develop accuracy test cases for DRC/LVS/FILL rules based on TSMC foundry decks

• Maintain regression tests for regular test cycles and report failures in bug tracking system

• Develop & execute the test plans for Pegasus DRC/LVS/FILL areas

• Create new test cases to verify/validate new features/enhancements

• Integrate CCR test cases/customer tests as part of regression suite to verify accuracy for each test cycle

• Work with PEs and R&Ds to review code quality, provide assessment on quality gaps and create and integrate test cases to fill quality gaps

• Work with PEs to integrate customer test cases as part of regression suite

• Validate and close code changes

• This person should have effective personality & communication skills to work within the PV group, and with cross functional groups [such as R&D and PE]

• This person should be able to work independently, being able to collaborate remotely with team members outside of Taiwan.

Desired Skills:

• M.S. or Ph. D. (EE), (CS), or related area. 4 year of experience within the EDA/technology or 6 years of experience in Software Engineering

• Expert EDA knowledge in Physical Verification

• Experience with EDA software

• Unix platform deep knowledge and work experience

• Scripting languages deep knowledge (sh, tcsh, Perl, Python)

• Knowledge of the Software Engineering Methodologies

• English – upper-intermediate level

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