Lead Design Engineer

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