Lead Education Application Engineer (RF/Microwave)

Job description

## **At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.** **Job Summary:** - As part of the Cadence Customer Education Team, you will create and deploy customer training across various platforms for Cadence's state-of-the-art tools, languages, and methodologies.  The training content you develop will be used globally for classroom, online, and virtual delivery. **Job responsibilities:** - Work with Cadence product engineers, R&D, application engineers, product marketing, and our in-house instructional design team to create training materials that are focused, relevant, and highlight the product’s latest features and methodologies. - Develop and update course lectures, labs, and related collateral to enable our customers to become highly productive with Cadence tools in the shortest possible time. - Create narrated online videos and demos, providing customers with snippets on Cadence tools, languages, and methodologies **Experience and Technical Skills required** - **Excellent written and verbal English communication skills**. - Engineering Degree with a background in analog/RF/microwave design.  RFIC and package design is a plus. - Well-versed with the complete front-back analog IC design flow. - Knows design, layout constraints, extraction, and packaging constraints. - Knowledge of EMI in analog/RF and has possibly run EM simulations. - Has worked within the Cadence Virtuoso environment and used the Spectre Circuit simulator. - Used Cadence Microwave Office (AWR) and associated tools. - Used or has knowledge of Cadence EMX/EMXDesigner tools. - Is proficient with MS PowerPoint and MS Word. - Enjoys a mixture of activities – authoring content, learning new tools and methodologies, “being the expert,” teaching and interacting with customers, and working with highly competent and experienced engineers - Process-oriented, quick to learn, and can multi-task efficiently. - Given clear goals, can work independently to accomplish such goals **The ideal candidate:** - Has strong written and verbal English communication skills. - Enjoys various activities – authoring content, learning new tools and methodologies, “being the expert,” teaching and interacting with customers, and working with highly competent and experienced engineers. - Given clear goals, can work independently to accomplish such goals. - Is aware of analog/mixed-signal design, simulation, layout, and verification flows/methodologies. - **Extensive IC layout experience in analog/mixed****‑****signal domains**, covering designs from simple to highly complex (AA), with thorough handling of all corner cases (PVT variations and mismatch). - Demonstrated ability to deliver robust layouts that meet stringent performance and reliability targets. - **Strong knowledge of the complete physical design and sign-off flow**, including layout verification (DRC/LVS), parasitic RC extraction (PEX), post-layout simulation, EM/IR (EMIR) analysis, reliability checks (ESD, LUP), and seamless integration through tape‑out. - Has working knowledge of Cadence design tools such as Virtuoso, Pegasus, PVS, Quantus, and the SKILL IDE. - A plus is having CAD experience and having worked on PDK development/PDK Cockpit - Should have a Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering with a minimum 4-6 years of related working experience. Be proud and passionate about the work you do. Together, our One Cadence -- One Team culture drives our success. ## **We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.**