Lead Software Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Job Overview: This role will contribute directly to the development and enhancement of AMBA Performance verification focusing on protocol functionality, performance, and robustness. This work may involve: • Implementing AMBA protocol features and state machines • Developing debug, trace, and analysis capabilities • Working closely with architects and executing features per plan. • Job Responsibilities: • Designing and implementing protocol functionality in AMBA AVIP • Developing and debugging BFMs, transactors, and associated software interfaces • Ensuring correctness, performance, and scalability in emulation and acceleration flows • Supporting customer issues, reproducing problems, and delivering fixes • Job Qualifications: • Strong fundamentals in digital design, computer architecture, and system‑level verification • Experience with hardware description languages (SystemVerilog/Verilog) and/or C/C++ • Understanding of standard interconnect and bus architectures (e.g., AMBA, UFS/Unipro/MPhy) • Familiarity with emulation, acceleration, or hybrid verification flows is a strong plus • Good debugging skills using waveforms, logs, and protocol analyzers • Ability to work across hardware and software boundaries We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.