Sr Principal Software Engineer
Cadence
Sr Principal Software Engineer at Cadence is a full time role based in BANGALORE, India. It was published on 3 March 2026 and was open at last check.
| Role | Sr Principal Software Engineer |
|---|---|
| Company | Cadence |
| Location | BANGALORE, India |
| Employment type | Full Time |
| Published | 3 March 2026 |
| Status | Open at last check |
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.
We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.
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