Principal Design Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

The Tensilica IP division of Cadence is looking for a system software engineer to join our world-class software development team. This position involves working on software development and debug tools, low level system libraries, and third party / open source software ports. Collaboration with other teams to create new products and resolve customer issues is required.

Responsibilities:

* Design, develop and maintain software in some or all of the following areas:

   * Open source based gcc/llvm toolchains

   * C and C++ standard libraries

   * low level system software and libraries

* Assist in testing and verification of new hardware features

* Work with customer engineering, hardware engineering and other teams to analyze and resolve complex issues

* Create and maintain internal and user documentation

Requirements:

* MS degree in CS/EE. Outstanding candidates with BS degrees will also be considered.

* 4+ years of experience in a related field. Some exposure to hardware development is preferred.

* Strong C/C++ and assembly skills. Must be comfortable reading disassembly and correlating with source code.

* Experience building/porting/maintaining open source tools, especially embedded gcc/llvm toolchains, is highly desirable.

* Experience with embedded software development.

* Good understanding of processor architecture and associated hardware concepts.

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Here you are. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

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