Principal Software Engineer-Calibre

Siemens-EDA is a global technology leader in Electronic Design Automation, providing software solutions that help engineers around the world design and manufacture new and highly innovative electronic products. Each year, our customers use our tools to push the boundaries of technology and physics in order to deliver smaller, faster and more reliable products that run the world’s high tech devices.

Position Overview
We are looking for a senior software engineer with a degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering to join the Calibre product software development team. Calibre’s high-capacity and high-performance tools are key to our customers’ success in building integrated circuits (ICs) for the semiconductor industry.

You will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting high-capacity and high-performance software for IC verification. Challenges will include computational geometry, high-performance data-structures, multi-threading, and multi-platform support. You will be part of a group of senior software engineers and architects contributing to new components and algorithms and supporting existing components.

You will collaborate with product management, quality assurance, technical publications, and customer support to deliver high-quality products on schedule. You will participate in scheduling and estimation of tasks, and assist in defining and developing software development best practices. Self-motivation, the desire to take technical ownership, a results-driven positive attitude and team-orientation will contribute to your success in this role.

Job Qualifications

Successful candidates will possess the following combination of education and/or experience:

• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

• Strong analysis, design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of high-performance data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• 10+ years of experience in software development in C and C++ in Linux
• Experience enhancing mission-critical complex high-performance code base

Knowledge in the following areas is desired:

• VLSI design principles
• Techniques for processing high-volume data
• Graph theory and algorithms and knowledge of computational geometry
• Multi-threaded, multi-processor and distributed computing
• Firm belief in the tenets of developing high quality, testable and maintainable software.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills and attention to detail.