Lead Education Application Engineer (RF/Microwave)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Work with product engineers, R&D, application engineers, product marketing, and instructional designers on relevant training materials.
• Develop and update lectures, labs, and collateral to help customers become productive with Cadence tools.
• Create narrated online videos and demonstrations about tools, languages, and methodologies.

Required experience and skills

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Engineering degree and background in analog/RF/microwave design; RFIC and package design are a plus.
• Knowledge of the complete front-to-back analog IC design flow, design and layout constraints, extraction, and packaging constraints.
• Knowledge of EMI in analog/RF; experience running EM simulations is relevant.
• Experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre Circuit simulator, and Cadence Microwave Office (AWR) and associated tools.
• Experience using or knowledge of Cadence EMX/EMXDesigner; proficiency with MS PowerPoint and MS Word.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering and 4–6 years of related work experience.

Ideal candidate qualifications

• Aware of analog/mixed-signal design, simulation, layout, and verification flows and methodologies.
• Extensive analog/mixed-signal IC layout experience, from simple to complex designs, including PVT variation and mismatch corner cases.
• Can deliver robust layouts meeting performance and reliability targets.
• Knows physical design and sign-off, including DRC/LVS, PEX, post-layout simulation, EM/IR analysis, reliability checks, and tape-out integration.
• Working knowledge of Virtuoso, Pegasus, PVS, Quantus, and the SKILL IDE.
• CAD experience and PDK development/PDK Cockpit experience are a plus.
• Enjoys authoring content, learning tools, teaching, and customer interaction; works independently, learns quickly, and multitasks efficiently.