Principal Firmware Engineer

AUSTIN Until 8/22/2026 First posted February 20, 2026 Last posted February 20, 2026
Job description

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

Job Description

Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for -

•             Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers

•             Developing firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.

•             Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.

•             Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.

•             Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C +Verilog simulations)

•             Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards.

Required Skills:

•             Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.

•             Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.

•             Good Knowledge of 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 experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers

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About this role

Summary

Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY, collaborate with hardware teams, debug on silicon and simulations

Job title

Principal Firmware Engineer

Experience level

relevant experience in firmware development

Industry

software

Location requirements

Austin, no remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C programmingDDR5 JEDECmicrocontrollersRTL debuggingShellPerlPythonTCLverification tools

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

firmwaremicrocontrollersDDR5Verilogembedded software
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

On-site City