Sr Principal Software Engineer

BANGALORE NOIDA Until 8/21/2026 12+ years exp First posted March 3, 2026 Last posted March 3, 2026
Job description

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

Position: Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Grade: T5

Experience: 12- 16 Years

Location: Bangalore/Noida

Job Responsibilities:

R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements to improve synthesis results with respect to timing, area and power.

This job will suit applicants looking to continue their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging problem domain.  There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out!

Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.

Job Qualifications:

BE/BTech/ME/MTech- Computer Science or others

Required Skills

Develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance Modus DFT software that is easy to use.

Develop software tools in C/C++ to support DFT and ATPG.

Research and develop software solutions to allow greater efficiency in architecture, hardware, and software teams.

Development environment is C++ on Unix in multi-threaded environment with expertise in C++, data-structure and algorithms.

Strong knowledge of Tcl is preferred

Experience in language compiler

Prior experience with large software development projects is highly recommended.

We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

About this role

Summary

Develop high-performance software for application and product engineers in a research-driven environment.

Job title

Sr Principal Software Engineer

Experience level

12-16 years

Minimum experience

12+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Bangalore or Noida, remote options not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

c++unixmulti-threaded programmingsoftware developmentdata structuresalgorithms

Preferred skills

tclcompiler

Specializations

c++multi-threadingdata structuresalgorithmstcl
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

On-site City

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

On-site City