Senior Principal Hardware Engineer

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
📍 Cary, NC, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 27, 2026

Job Description

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Cadence is the leader in hardware emulation-acceleration technologies and products. As a Physical Design Senior Principal Hardware Engineer, you will drive solutions for complex designs from synthesis to GDS through tape-out. You are knowledgeable about floorplan, clock construction, placement, routing, and signoff closure activities such as timing analysis, physical verification, and IR/EM. You have exceptional communication skills and can collaborate with partner RTL, DFT, and Architecture teams. As a principal engineer, you will contribute to further developing our tools and flows to improve design quality and execution. This position is located in our US offices (San Jose, CA or Raleigh, NC).

Our emulation-acceleration system platform is the most advanced industry-leading configurable scalable system, generation after generation, used in labs and datacenters. ...

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Job Details

  • Location Cary, NC
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date July 27, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 01, 2026