Lead Design Engineer
CADENCE US
Apply to this job HYDERABAD Until 9/18/2026 5+ years exp First posted July 20, 2026 Last posted July 20, 2026
Job description
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
- Development, automation and maintenance of EDA flows and scripts for physical implementation
- Develop TFM to optimize PPA for IP’s and Soft Controllers
- PPA characterization and optimization of flow for performance-oriented and power-oriented best-in-class IP cores in advanced process nodes, on TSMC, Intel, Samsung and Rapidus Foundries
- Manage regression infrastructure that tracks quality of the RTL/flow development as well as the PPA of the key designs.
- Digital design implementation using Cadence EDA tools - Genus, Innovus, Conformal, Litmus, Tempus, Voltus, Certus, Pegasus and other backend tools
- Candidate will be working on automation of Full chip floorplanning using latest AI tools. Involving in active AI agent based partition for Full Chip Floorplanning.
- Required skills –
- Educational Qualification: MS/MTech/BE/ BTech in Electronics from reputed institutes with 5 + years' experience
- Physical design experience in ASIC design environment
- Should have knowledge of complete ASIC Design Flow, including Synthesis, Physical Designing , Timing Analysis, Power Analysis and Formal Verification
- Should have excellent leadership, communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Expertise on High frequency design methodologies for complete ASIC backend flows.
- Candidate with experience in Full Chip (SoC level) floorplanning, pin assignment, global clock distribution across all subsystems is a plus point.
- Good communication skills, strong analytical problem solving skills and willingness to learn quickly.
- Solid scripting skills including Python and Tcl.
- Should be self-motivated and good team player.
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About this role
Summary
Develop and optimize ASIC physical design flows, manage automation, and lead engineering projects.
Job title
Lead Design Engineer
Experience level
5+ years
Minimum experience
5+ years exp
Industry
software
Location requirements
Must be located in Hyderabad, India; remote work not specified.
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Skills & keywords
Required skills
MS/MTech/BE/BTech in Electronicsphysical designASIC design flowscripting Pythonscripting Tclteam leadership
Preferred skills
Full Chip floorplanningpin assignmentglobal clock distribution
Specializations
ASIC designphysical designautomationAI
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
On-site City