Full-time

Principal Design Engineer

Posted by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. • Cary, NC, United States

📍 Cary, NC 🕒 June 20, 2026

About the Role

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
We are a small group of individuals designing among the most complex chip in the world getting into the award-winning Cadence Design Systems Palladium platform…

As such we are seeking an experienced DFT engineer which role will span across the full spectrum of the DFT implementation: from architecture definition through silicon testing and debug.

A bonus, this individual will have cross functional teams’ interactions not only within our group; but across Cadence and the multiple BU involved in our developments.


Key responsibilities:

+ Define and implement SoC level DFT architecture for large and complex designs.

+ Develop, integrate, and support SCAN, ATPG, MBIST, BSCAN and iJTAG.

+ Perform DFT insertion, verification, and coverage analysis at block and SoC levels.

+ Drive pre-silicon DFT sign-off, includi...

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