Principal Product Engineer 6 Stratus HLS Solutions

Job Title

Principal Product Engineer 6 Stratus HLS Solutions

Role Summary

The Principal Product Engineer will serve as a technical bridge between customers, field teams, and product engineering for Cadence Stratus HLS in Cork. You will own customer evaluations and production adoption engagements end-to-end, translate customer design challenges into actionable product requirements, and work with R&D to prepare development-ready specifications.

Experience Level

Senior 6 requires 5+ years of combined experience in hardware design, EDA applications engineering, product engineering, or a closely related field.

Responsibilities

Drive customer adoption of Stratus HLS and convert field feedback into clear, implementable product requirements.

• Lead customer evaluations from scoping through production sign-off alongside field application engineers and sales.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical design issues to unblock customer projects.
• Provide hands-on training on HLS methodology and tool features to increase customer competency.
• Identify emerging customer use cases and research capabilities to accelerate HLS adoption, including AI-assisted flows.
• Author and refine product requirement and functional specifications in collaboration with product management and R&D.
• Represent the voice of the customer in roadmap and planning discussions with qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Manage relationships across product, R&D, field engineering, and solutions teams to align roadmap priorities with delivery.
• Deliver evidence-based feedback from evaluations and field engagements to reduce production risk and improve product quality.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and professional experience; a second list notes desirable skills.

• 5+ years experience in hardware design, EDA applications engineering, product engineering, or related roles.
• Strong background in digital hardware design for ASIC or FPGA, including hands-on RTL design experience.
• Working proficiency in C++ sufficient to read and discuss implementation-level trade-offs.
• Experience using hardware design and EDA tools on Linux, including scripted flows and command-line operation.
• Proven ability to convert customer or stakeholder needs into clear, structured product or functional specifications.
• Track record of managing technical engagements with external customers from evaluation to production adoption.
• Clear written and verbal communication with the ability to influence technical direction using data.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with SystemC (advantage) and High Level Synthesis tools (Stratus HLS, Catapult, Vitis HLS, etc.).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted hardware design flows or integrating AI tools into hardware design.
• Prior field/support experience for EDA tools and exposure to requirements management tools such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and delivering training sessions; familiarity with Tcl or Python scripting for EDA automation.

Education Requirements

Bachelors degree (required) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline; Masters degree in a related field strongly preferred.

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.