Principal Design Engineer

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Full-time other-general
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Location
Cary, NC, United States
Posted
June 20, 2026

Job Description

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
We are a small group of individuals designing among the most complex chip in the world getting into the award-winning Cadence Design Systems Palladium platformโ€ฆ

As such we are seeking an experienced DFT engineer which role will span across the full spectrum of the DFT implementation: from architecture definition through silicon testing and debug.

A bonus, this individual will have cross functional teamsโ€™ interactions not only within our group; but across Cadence and the multiple BU involved in our developments.


Key responsibilities:

+ Define and implement SoC level DFT architecture for large and complex designs.

+ Develop, integrate, and support SCAN, ATPG, MBIST, BSCAN and iJTAG.

+ Perform DFT insertion, verification, and coverage analysis at block and SoC levels.

+ Drive pre-silicon DFT sign-off, includi...