Lead Design Engineer

PUNE 04Full-timePosted Jun 18, 2026
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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Job Responsibilities:

  • The Candidate will have design responsibility, including floor planning, power grid design, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing/SI closure, power / EM-IR signoff, physical verification (DRC/LVS/Antenna), and DFM Closure.
  • Physical design implementation of state-of-the-art Cadence IPs using Cadence EDA tools - Genus, Innovus, Tempus, Voltus and other backend tools
  • Physical design for PPA optimization of performance and power-oriented best-in-class interface IPs such as DDR, LPDDR, PCIE, UCIE, etc and test chips for advanced process nodes, such as 7nm/5nm/3nm/2nm
  • An opportunity to work on many varieties of challenging designs, i.e., low power, high-speed and area optimized designs.
  • Work closely with RTL design team & Analog Team to ensure on-time, successful tapeouts. 

Required skills –

  • B.Tech/BE/ME/Mtech with 4-6 years hands-on experience in physical design and physical verification.
  • Experienced with ASIC design flow, hierarchical physical design strategies, methodologies and understand deep sub-micron technology issues.
  • Solid knowledge on physical design, static timing analysis, Low Power Design, EM/IR /crosstalk analysis, formal verification, physical verification, DFM, DFT.
  • Successful track records of taping out complex IP’s & SoC’s at 16/10/7/5/3 nm with different foundries.
  • Power user of Cadence implementation tools, such as Genus, Innovus, Quantus, Tempus, PVS,  Voltus will be an added advantage
  • Automation and programming-minded, coding experience in Makefile/Tcl/Tk/Perl/python assisted with AI.
  • Should have excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, should be self-motivated and good team player

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