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# Principal Firmware Engineer

AUSTIN Senior individual contributor Software Engineering 

Listed on Cadence Design’s official careers site. Listed as of October 18, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
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## Job description

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

### Job Description

Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for -
- Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers
- Developing firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.
- Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.
- Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.
- Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C +Verilog simulations)
- Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards.

### Required Skills
- Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.
- Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.
- Good Knowledge of C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE.
- Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem.
- Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting
- Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Not stated
- First seen by OpenNash: Jul 10, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
- Listed for: 100 days
- Location: AUSTIN[Apply on Cadence Design’s careers site →](https://cadence.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Careers/job/AUSTIN/Principal-Firmware-Engineer_R53293)

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