93% of Our Employees Say
Cadence is a Great Place to Work!

Our employees are at the center of everything we create and the business success we achieve. Cadence is committed to maximizing innovation by fostering an environment where employees have an equal opportunity to share their ideas and to be heard.

Our Mission

Fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture is a foundational tenet of our business strategy. Our employees are driven by a shared sense of purpose to do good for our customers, communities, and each other. Our values help guide our mission of building a better, more connected world.

  • Innovation: Think Big
  • Quality: Deliver Excellence
  • Agility: Move Quickly
  • Integrity: Be Accountable
  • One Cadence - One Team
  • Customers: Their Success is Our Success

Have a Meaningful Career with Us

Working at Cadence means working alongside the industry’s brightest people and the world’s most innovative companies.

You will be helping our customers deliver extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to complete systems for the dynamic market applications, including hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial, and healthcare. View our customer success stories.

Employees can access live and on-demand learning for soft and technical skills, leadership training, and mentorship matching to support their professional growth.

Sustainable by Design

Cadence is increasingly providing creative solutions to reduce power consumption and enable more sustainable innovation across the tech industry.

Our technology is being used by our customers to optimize power, space, and energy needs from chips to boards to complete systems to sustainably design extraordinary products with a lower impact on the environment. This includes reducing semiconductor power consumption with new AI-based innovative solutions for chip design.

Learn more about our Environment, Social, and Governance initiatives.

One Cadence—One Team

At Cadence, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of what makes us a strong company. Our employees work across more than 20 different countries representing an array of backgrounds and experiences.

Our One Cadence—One Team culture encourages the exchange of ideas that advance high performance, innovation, and teamwork. We are committed to fostering an environment based on trust and respect, so employees feel supported to do their best work.

A diverse and inclusive culture cultivates the innovation needed to develop Cadence’s suite of industry-leading products and services.

Inclusion Group Communities

Our Inclusion Groups cultivate a welcoming and safe environment by bringing employees together to recognize, celebrate, and learn more about one another.

This includes communities open for all employees to support those who are LGBTQ+, Veterans, Latinx, Black, Women, Asian and Pacific Islander, neurodivergent, and have disabilities. These forums encourage dialogue for sharing and connecting, promoting awareness of diverse experiences and the impact of bias, and celebrating our unique experiences.

We believe that the human connection, personal storytelling, and real experiences better connect us to each other’s journeys.

Benefits

Cadence cares about our employees and their families. We provide benefits and programs that support their whole self – physical, emotional, financial and relational.

To foster an inclusive culture, we recognize all employees show up in different ways and have unique needs. We offer robust benefits to support employees at many stages of life, whether it is planning for their health, future, or family needs.

We support flexibility and a mindful work-life balance to maintain a happy and healthy workforce.

Rewards

We believe in fair rewards and have designed our compensation programs to share the company’s success with the people who made that success possible—our employees.

We offer programs that tie employee and company success together, like our semi-annual bonus program and our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), which allows employees to purchase Cadence stock at a discount.

Our peer-to-peer recognition program allows any employee to reward another employee with a monetary gift for going above and beyond.

The Cadence Giving Foundation

Investing in the communities where we live and work is a core part of our history and culture. The Cadence Giving Foundation is committed to bringing innovation, technical expertise, and philanthropy together to make a lasting, positive impact in our world.

Our foundation helps support critical needs in our global communities in areas such as diversity, equity, and inclusion; climate and sustainability; and access to STEM education.

We are part of the Pledge 1% Movement, committed to contributing 1% of employee time, technology, and net profit to positively impact our communities.

Employee Giving

At Cadence, you will have many new opportunities to do good and make a difference.

Our employees are passionate about serving their communities in many different ways. Employees can engage in campaigns organized by Cadence, while others are empowered to create their own opportunities through Dollars for Do’ers employee grants, volunteer time off, or matching gifts.

We also provide immersive service projects for employees throughout the year to support charitable organizations around the world, while developing their own leadership skills.

Awards

#9 on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For List

#9 on the World’s Best Workplaces List

Recognized on the PEOPLE Companies That Care List

Recognized in the Most Innovative Design Companies of 2024 design sector

 

I love that Cadence celebrates diversity and invests in sustainability. It makes it fun to come on campus, especially when there are activities planned to mingle or volunteer with colleagues. One distinguishing factor of Cadence is that everyone seems happy to work here and is always ready to help.

-Fanny Besem-Cordova, Principal Application Engineer

 

I value 'One Team One Cadence' work culture and the opportunities that it presents. It enables me constantly to collaborate with different industry experts and grow in my career. The unique position of my role allows me to grow and improve my emotional intelligence.

-Harsh Shah, Principal Application Engineer
 

My favorite thing about working for Cadence is that I get to work with amazing colleagues from around the world! I learn something new from and with them every day.

-Tomomi Glover, Sr Group Director and Associate General Counsel

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We are looking for trailblazers to shape the future of innovation. Work on revolutionary technology, collaborate with leading customers, and solve the industry’s toughest challenges in markets like AI/ML, automotive, aerospace and defense, and 5G. There has never been a more exciting time to be at Cadence!

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