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Cadence Design Systems

Design Engineering Manager - Bangalore, India

Cadence Design Systems BANGALORE, India 2 years ago
Analog & Mixed-Signal Design

Originally posted 7 August 2024 by the employer — open 764 days.

Work on High Speed SERDES Test chips.

About the role

This role involves leading pre-silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation infrastructure development and post-silicon validation efforts. You will primarily focus on Cadence's High Speed SERDES Test chips.

What you'll do

  • Lead pre-silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation infrastructure development.
  • Lead post-silicon validation efforts on High Speed SERDES Test chips.
  • Design hardware and software architecture for testing test chips, including test PCBs and controlling FPGA platforms.
  • Define test plans for rigorously testing compliance to Physical Layer Electrical specifications.
  • Implement defined tests and generate high quality test reports.

What you'll need

  • 6-10 years (BTech) or 4-8 years (MTech) of experience in Post-Silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation.
  • Deep Physical Layer electrical validation experience on at least one High speed SERDES protocol like PCIe, USB, DP, ethernet, SRIO, JESD204, DDRIO.
  • Strong hands-on experience using lab equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Network Analyzer, Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT).

Nice to have

  • Experience managing small teams (at least 2 members).
  • Experience leading complete post-silicon validation efforts for at least one full project.
  • 1-2 years of experience in FPGA Design, PCB schematic and layout design & Prototyping.
  • Pre-Silicon IP/SoC Physical Layer Electrical Validation experience related to board bring-up & Debug.
  • Familiarity with Verilog RTL coding, FPGA coding, Labview, python, C/C++, TCL.
  • Experience conducting hiring interviews and mentoring new hires.
  • Passion for analog and digital electronic circuit design aspects as well as signal processing related aspects.

Skills: Physical Layer Electrical Validation, High Speed SERDES, Test chips, signal integrity, timing closure, chip-to-chip interfaces

Market context

This role has been open 169 days — well above the 91-day median for High-Speed IO/SerDes Design roles.

High-Speed IO/SerDes Design · Serdes Highspeed

Open roles in category
217
Median days open
91 d
Median salary
$185k
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
How Cadence Design Systems compares in High-Speed IO/SerDes Design hiring
Metric Cadence Design Systems All employers we track in this specialty (217 roles · 44 employers)
Open roles in category 19 217
Median days open 153 d 91 d (+62 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $185k

Skills observed across this category: Physical Layer Electrical Validation, High Speed SERDES, Test chips, signal integrity, timing closure, chip-to-chip interfaces

Who's hiring in this category

  • AMD · 24 open roles · median 61 d
  • Cadence Design Systems (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 153 d
  • Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 74 d
  • Synopsys · 16 open roles · median 53 d
  • Broadcom · 11 open roles · median 142 d
  • NVIDIA · 10 open roles · median 95 d

How we counted: 217 open High-Speed IO/SerDes Design (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 44 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Figures refresh nightly.

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BANGALORE, India
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