Sr Principal Software Engineer
Listed on Cadence Design’s official careers site. Posted September 23, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Position
Sr.
Principal Software Engineer Grade
T5 Experience: 12- 16 Years Location: Bangalore/Noida Job Responsibilities: R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements to improve synthesis results with respect to timing, area and power. This job will suit applicants looking to continue their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging problem domain.
There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out! Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.
Job Qualifications
BE/BTech/ME/MTech- Computer Science or others
Required Skills
Develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance Modus DFT software that is easy to use. Develop software tools in C/C++ to support DFT and ATPG. Research and develop software solutions to allow greater efficiency in architecture, hardware, and software teams. Development environment is C++ on Unix in multi-threaded environment with expertise in C++, data-structure and algorithms. Strong knowledge of Tcl is preferred Experience in language compiler Prior experience with large software development projects is highly recommended.
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