Responsibilities include:

• Leading a high performing team of application engineers to the next level of success.

• Developing appropriate strategies to win deals

• Collaborating with the sales & marketing teams to identify and understand the technical and business challenges of our customers.

• Developing solutions for customers, leveraging the broad Cadence IP portfolio.

• Educating our customers on how the IP products meet their needs and helping them evaluate the IP (with support from the product R&D teams) relative to their requirements.

• Influencing the IP product development roadmap by communicating customer needs to the product R&D teams.

• Keeping up with industry trends and protocol evolutions at PCI-SIG and other standards bodies.

• Managing and supporting the engagements via on-site or remote technical interactions, providing demos, supporting evaluations, resolving technical problems, addressing competitive challenges and regularly communicating status among cross functional teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• MSEE with 15+ years of relevant experience, or PhD with 10+ years of relevant experience.

• Management experience leading a highly technical team.

• Understanding of latest SoC architectures and system-level design practices for market segments (mobile, storage, automotive, networking, IoT) particularly from IP requirements perspective

• Prior experience and knowledge of one or more interface and connectivity protocols, e.g. PCIe, CXL, UCIe, Ethernet, USB, MIPI, 112G, 56G.

• Familiarity with state-of-the-art SoC design implementation: RTL design, synthesis and static timing analysis, physical design flow, testbench creation and simulation, some familiarity with analog/mixed-signal design and verification flows, and basic understanding of foundry, package and PCB design flows and technologies

• Prior experience in selecting, using, designing or supporting PHY and/or controller interface IP, internal or external

• Ability to understand and present complex technical requirements, problems, and solutions concisely in verbal and written communications

• Ability to organize, conduct and co-ordinate meetings involving multiple teams, internal and external

Travel (~ 10%) may be required to visit customer, sales, and engineering locations

The annual salary range for California is $138,600 to $257,400. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

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