Cadence

Sr Principal Software Engineer

South Korea · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerCadence
LocationSouth Korea
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted31 Mar 2026

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

Job Overview:

This role will contribute directly to the development and enhancement of AMBA Performance verification and/or Unipro stack products, focusing on protocol functionality, performance, and robustness. Depending on the specific protocol area, the work may involve:

Implementing AMBA protocol features and state machines
Enhancing performance and scalability on emulation platforms
Developing debug, trace, and analysis capabilities
Working with customers and field teams to resolve issues and deliver solutions related to AMBA (CHI*, ACE, AXI)

Job Responsibilities:

Designing and implementing protocol functionality in AMBA AVIP
Developing and debugging BFMs, transactors, and associated software interfaces
Ensuring correctness, performance, and scalability in emulation and acceleration flows
Collaborating with cross‑functional teams
Participating in feature bring‑up, regression, and release activities
Supporting customer issues, reproducing problems, and delivering fixes
GUI based performance analysis tool development

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Job Qualifications:

Strong fundamentals in digital design, computer architecture, and system‑level verification
Experience with hardware description languages (SystemVerilog/Verilog) and/or C/C++
Understanding of standard interconnect and bus architectures (e.g., AMBA, UFS/Unipro/MPhy)
Familiarity with emulation, acceleration, or hybrid verification flows is a strong plus
Good debugging skills using waveforms, logs, and protocol analyzers
Ability to work across hardware and software boundaries

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