Lead Design Engineer
CADENCE US
Apply to this job BANGALORE Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 22, 2025 Last posted December 21, 2025
Job description
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Be part of the Cadence Memory IP Group adn responsible for -
- Developing firmware for DDR/LPDDR/GDDR/HBM PHY using microcontrollers
- Responsible for developing firmware in C and similar Embedded programming languages typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low level APIs on Microcontrollers.
- Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive algorithms and implement them.
- Responsible for collaborating with verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.
- Support debug of firmware-based simulations in hardware behavioral simulations (RTL simulations with firmware for verification)
- Support debugging issues on emulation and Silicon bring-up boards.
Required Skills:
- 4-6 years of experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed Serdes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.
- Good Knowledge C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE.
- Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem.
- Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting
- Good debugging skills
- Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers
- Good communication Skill
We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.
About this role
Summary
Develop firmware for memory interfaces and collaborate with hardware designers.
Job title
Lead Design Engineer
Experience level
4-6 years
Industry
software
Location requirements
Located in Bangalore; remote work not allowed
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Skills & keywords
Required skills
bare-metal firmwareCRTL simulationsShellPerlPythonTCLdebuggingverification EDA Toolscommunication
Preferred skills
None specified
Specializations
firmwareembeddeddebuggingverificationC
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
On-site City