Lead Customer Engagement Engineer — Pegasus

Job Title

Lead Customer Engagement Engineer — Pegasus

Role Summary

Responsible for enabling customers to adopt and deploy the Cadence Pegasus Verification System for advanced-node physical verification and signoff. Provide technical leadership to achieve scalable, high-performance DRC/LVS/FILL signoff using Pegasus’ parallel, cloud-ready architecture.

Work cross-functionally with Sales, R&D, Product Engineering, and customer design teams; act as the primary customer-facing technical expert for Pegasus deployments.

Experience Level

Senior (lead-level). Years of experience not specified in the posting.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical enablement, deployment, and customer support for Pegasus verification flows.

• Assist customers with adoption and deployment of Pegasus for DRC, LVS, and fill signoff at advanced nodes.
• Tune and validate high-performance, scalable, and parallel verification flows, including cloud-ready setups.
• Troubleshoot and debug verification issues; reproduce customer problems and coordinate fixes with R&D.
• Provide technical guidance and training to customer design teams and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Engineering, and R&D to prioritize customer needs and product improvements.
• Document best practices, create deployment guides, and capture customer feedback.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience inferred from the role description.

• Practical experience with physical verification workflows (DRC, LVS, fill) and signoff processes.
• Experience with EDA tools and verification flows; familiarity with Pegasus or similar verification systems preferred.
• Ability to deploy and optimize parallel and cloud-ready verification architectures.
• Strong customer-facing, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience troubleshooting complex verification issues and working with engineering teams to resolve defects.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with scripting (Python, shell), Linux environments, and high-performance computing clusters or cloud platforms.
• Prior role in customer engagement, applications engineering, or field technical support for EDA tools.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Cadence Design Systems

Headquarters: San Jose, California, USA

Cadence Design Systems is a global electronic design automation company that provides software, hardware, and intellectual property for designing advanced semiconductor chips. With over 25 years in the industry, Cadence is known for its innovative technology solutions and has been recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The company is dedicated to solving complex technical challenges in order to enable customers to create revolutionary products and experiences.