Senior Principal SWE

**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  **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 **We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.** -------------------------------------------------------------------