Principal Product Engineer – High-Speed IP UCIE

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Position Overview

Join a growing and dynamic IP team developing best-in-class digital and mixed-signal IP solutions. This role focuses on post-sales technical support for high-performance interface IP, working as part of a team supporting UCIe, PCIe, USB, DPHY, Ethernet, DDR, LPDDR, GDDR, and HBM PHYs.

The Principal Product Engineer is a key technical leader and product owner, responsible for driving product engineering activities across the full lifecycle—from pre-sales engagement and pre-silicon integration to post-silicon bring-up and customer deployment. This role serves as a primary interface between customers and Cadence R&D, leading technical discussions, resolving complex issues, and ensuring successful product adoption.

This position requires strong technical depth, customer-facing leadership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive execution across global, cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• •Act as the primary product engineering owner for UCIE die-to-die subsystems at the customer level
• •Lead customer engagements, drive technical discussions, design reviews, and deployment strategy
• •Own and drive resolution of complex subsystem integration and implementation issues
• •Lead SoC integration reviews covering PHY and controller subsystems
• •Provide technical leadership for RTL, gate-level simulations, and timing closure strategies
• •Define and drive improvements to integration methodologies, checklists, and customer collateral
• •Lead post-silicon bring-up and debug activities, ensuring successful customer deployment
• •Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, validation, and applications teams to deliver product readiness
• •Drive continuous improvement in customer experience, turnaround time, and engineering quality
• •Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across projects and teams
• •Leverage AI tools to improve debug efficiency, data analysis, and decision-making

Position Requirements

• •Strong experience with high-speed interface IP
• •Deep understanding of RTL design, gate-level verification, and simulation methodologies
• •Experience with synthesis, STA, and timing closure; backend knowledge is a plus
• •Familiarity with DFT methodologies, test flows, and system validation approaches

Skills & Qualifications

[Required]

• •Bachelor’s in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 7+ years of experience, or Master’s with 5+ years, or PhD with relevant experience
• •Proven ability to solve complex technical problems and drive root cause to closure
• •Experience leading cross-functional technical efforts across design, validation, and customer teams
• •Strong communication skills with ability to influence customer and internal stakeholders
• •Experience managing multiple priorities, escalations, and technical reviews
• •Demonstrated ability to represent the organization in customer-facing technical roles
• •Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive deliverables independently

[Preferred]

• •Experience with memory and/or high-speed communication interfaces (DDR, LPDDR, PCIe, Ethernet, UCIe, USB)
• •Understanding of analog/mixed-signal design practices
• •Experience in customer-facing silicon debug and bring-up environments
• •Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows and data-driven debug techniques

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