Senior Software Engineer, Simulator Development - San Jose, California, United States
$163,000 - $253,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The engineer develops and extends the trace‑driven power/thermal simulation engine, integrating power macromodels, workload traces, and thermal solvers into a coherent, scalable simulation flow.
What you'll do
- Implement and optimize trace‑driven power and thermal simulation engines. - Integrate IP‑level power macromodels into system‑level simulation. - Manage a time‑indexed simulation flow across power and thermal domains. - Generate transient power maps and perform spatiotemporal hotspot analysis. - Interface with reduced‑order thermal models and CFD‑calibrated solvers. - Ensure simulation performance, scalability, and reproducibility.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, Master's degree with 3+ years of experience, or PhD with 0+ years of experience. - Strong C++ software-engineering background. - Experience building or extending simulation frameworks. - Familiarity with discrete‑event or time‑stepped simulation architectures. - Solid software-design, debugging, and performance-optimization skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with time‑indexed and event‑driven simulation. - Knowledge of numerical methods or reduced‑order modeling. - Exposure to data‑pipeline integration.
Skills: simulation engine, power macromodels, thermal solvers, simulation frameworks, C++
This role has been open 89 days — well above the 74-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
671
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Median days open
74 d
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Median salary
$195k
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| Metric | Samsung Semiconductor | All employers we track in this specialty (671 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 671 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 3 | 1441 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 81 d | 74 d (+7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: simulation engine, power macromodels, thermal solvers, simulation frameworks, C++
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 153 open roles · median 171 d
- Synopsys · 63 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 44 open roles · median 48 d
- Qualcomm · 36 open roles · median 76 d
- GlobalFoundries · 33 open roles · median 39 d
- Keysight Technologies · 32 open roles · median 73 d
How we counted: 671 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.