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December 13, 2025
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Software Engineer I

San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
$89K/yr - $165K/yr
New Grad, Entry Level
Cadence is a leader in hardware emulation-prototyping technology and products. They are seeking a hands-on system integration engineer to bridge the integration, validation, and characterization of various subsystems throughout the development cycle.
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Responsibilities

  • Leverage silicon verification platform and environment to create necessary post-silicon infrastructure, methodology and automation to allow tests executed in a timely and efficient manner
  • Integrate silicon, HW, firmware, and system software into a complete system which includes various InfiniBand and PCIe protocols, PXE booting, virtual machines, secure networks, Ethernet and Ethernet-over-Infiniband, sockets and RPC calls, FPGA, microcontroller interfaces, JTAG, I2C, SPI, SERDES, memory and many other interfaces
  • Execute post-silicon tests to expose design issues, validate product against the specifications including performance, and qualify the design for production release
  • Review, replicate, and respond to customer issues. Perform initial analysis of error logs from customer design simulation runs. Debug and isolate system-level issues down to ASIC/FPGAs, host servers, subsystems, firmware modules, runtime diagnostics
  • Develop silicon and system stress tests. Leverage tests developed by other engineers. Package tests for production and field use
  • Define, develop and drive the implementation of validation automation environment

Qualification

Required

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
  • Fluent in at least one functional scripting language, preferably but not limited to Python. Other languages are plus
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated and ability to work with cross-functions teams around the globe

Preferred

  • Experience with embedded software/firmware, operating systems, and/or HW/SW interfaces is a plus
  • Experience in developing, maintaining and operating automated engineering processes is a big plus

Benefits

  • Paid vacation and paid holidays
  • 401(k) plan with employer match
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • A variety of medical, dental and vision plan options
  • And more
Cadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application of computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design of silicon to systems.
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Founded in 1988
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