Senior Principal Design Engineer

• Provide technical leadership for complex, high-visibility silicon programs from synthesis/netlist through physical implementation, signoff, and tapeout


• Develop and deploy advanced methodologies to achieve aggressive power, performance, and area objectives


• Work with the PSG engineering team to understand design implementation challenges and develop practical solutions


• Collaborate with Cadence R&D to identify product gaps, influence tool development, and drive enhancements for advanced silicon designs


• Drive technical innovation across physical design, timing, power, signal integrity, physical verification, and signoff with the PSG European team


• Evaluate and introduce Cadence technologies, methodologies, and IP into customer design flows


• Lead technical investigations into silicon failures, performance limitations, convergence challenges, and methodology issues


• Establish reusable methodologies and best practices across customers and technology nodes


• Mentor and develop implementation engineers as a technical authority within the PSG EMEA organisation


• Represent Cadence as a technical thought leader with strategic customers, partners, and the semiconductor ecosystem


• Present technical results and innovations to senior leadership, customers, industry forums, and engineering communities


• Assist with pre-sales support information and effort estimation alongside the Design Engineering Director and Sales team


• Work across advanced-node digital implementation, RTL-to-GDSII flows, physical design and optimisation, timing closure and signoff, power optimisation and analysis, signal integrity and electromigration, SoC integration, IP integration, DTCO, advanced packaging, and automation/methodology development including AI acceleration

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline


• 15+ years of relevant semiconductor engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated technical achievement


• Proven tape-out experience on advanced process nodes


• Experience with leading-edge CPUs, GPUs, AI/ML accelerators, networking devices, or other high-performance SoCs


• Extensive experience developing and delivering complex semiconductor products


• Deep expertise in one or more areas of the semiconductor implementation flow, with broad understanding of the complete SoC development lifecycle


• Experience with advanced process technologies and complex physical implementation challenges


• Ability to diagnose and solve problems across traditional functional boundaries


• Experience working directly with semiconductor customers, foundries, or technology partners


• Excellent technical communication and presentation skills


• Ability to influence technical direction without relying solely on organisational authority


• Technical team leadership experience essential


• Excellent oral and written English essential


• Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in semiconductor engineering, with a focus on advanced process technologies, physical design, and SoC integration. Proven ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and influence design methodologies while effectively communicating complex technical concepts.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Silicon Program Leadership


• Advanced Process Technologies


• Tape-Out Experience


• Technical Team Leadership


• SoC Development Lifecycle

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Physical Design


• Timing Closure


• Power Optimisation


• Signal Integrity


• Electromigration


• RTL-to-GDSII Flows


• AI/ML Accelerators


• Complex Semiconductor Products


• Methodology Development


• DTCO

Soft Skills

• Technical Communication


• Interpersonal Skills


• Self-Motivated


• Planning Skills
  
• Presentation Skills

Industry Keywords

• Semiconductor Engineering


• High-Performance SoCs


• Advanced-Node Digital Implementation


• Physical Verification


• Customer Engagement

Tools & Technologies

• Cadence Technologies


• Cadence R&D Tools


• Automation Tools


• Design Flows


• Customer Design Flows