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Sr. Group Director Memory and Serdes Applications

Position Overview

Cadence is seeking a motivated detail-oriented and creative leader to join the North America IP Sales team as the Senior Director of Applications Engineering for our Design IP portfolio. The ideal candidate is an experienced High-Speed Interface Technologist who excels at leading multiple teams of skilled engineers and collaborating with customers to develop solutions for their System/ASIC/SoC designs using the Cadence Serdes and memory IP portfolio. This is a pre-sales role well-suited for someone with System/ASIC/SoC design experience strong interpersonal and communication skills and a commitment to ensuring customer success. The position offers the opportunity to work across various market segments including AI Cloud Networking and Storage as well as designs foundries and leading-edge processes. The successful candidate will build credibility by addressing the most challenging high-speed interface and memory problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of senior application engineers focused on technical presales for high-speed interface PHYs and controllers.
• Develop strategies to secure complex bundle IP and services deals that encompass memory Serdes and foundation IPs.
• Establish the infrastructure and methodology necessary to integrate new IP acquisitions and drive efficiency improvements using AI.
• Develop customer solutions by leveraging the broad Cadence IP portfolio.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to identify and understand customers technical and business challenges.
• Educate customers on how Cadences IP products address their requirements and assist them in evaluating the IP with support from product R&D teams.
• Influence the IP product development roadmap by communicating customer needs to product R&D teams.
• Stay informed about industry trends and protocol evolutions at JEDEC PCI-SIG and other standards bodies.
• Manage and support customer engagements through on-site or remote technical interactions including providing demos supporting evaluations resolving technical issues addressing competitive challenges and regularly communicating status across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• MSEE with 20 years of relevant experience or PhD with 15 years of relevant experience.
• Management experience leading a highly technical team.
• Previous experience in selecting using designing or supporting PHY and controller interface IP internally or externally.
• Understanding of the latest SoC architectures and system-level design practices for market segments such as AI HPC mobile storage automotive networking and IoT with a particular focus on IP requirements.
• Prior experience and knowledge of one or more interface memory and connectivity protocols including DDR LPDDR HBM PCIe CXL UCIe and Ethernet.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art SoC design implementation and development flow including RTL design synthesis and static timing analysis physical design flow testbench creation and simulation some exposure to analog/mixed-signal design and verification flows and basic knowledge of foundry package and PCB design flows and technologies.
• Prior IP or SoC design experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to understand and communicate complex technical requirements challenges and solutions clearly in both verbal and written formats.
• Proven ability to organize conduct and coordinate meetings involving multiple internal and external teams.
• Willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time to visit customers sales teams and engineering locations.

The annual salary range for California is $187600 to $348400. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus equity and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications skill level competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays 401(k) plan with employer match employee stock purchase plan a variety of medical dental and vision plan options and more.

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