Lead Software Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

SkillsYou’llNeed:MinimumQualifications

• Bachelor’sorMaster’sdegreeinComputerScience,ElectricalEngineering,ComputerEngineering,Math, orarelatedtechnicalfield.

• ProficiencyinCorC++programmingonLinux,demonstratedthroughcoursework,academicresearch,internships,open-sourcecontributions,orpersonalprojects.

• Solidunderstandingofdatastructures,algorithms,computationalcomplexity,andobject-orientedprogramming.

• Stronganalyticalandproblem-solvingskills,withtheabilitytobreakdowncomplextechnicalproblemsanddeveloplogical,structuredsolutions.

• Basicunderstandingofsoftwaredebuggingandtestingprinciples.

• Familiaritywithcodingagentsandtheirapplicationtosoftwaredevelopmenttaskssuchascodebaseexploration,implementation,debugging,testdevelopment,anddocumentation.

• Abilitytoreviewandvalidateagent-generatedresults,withanunderstandingoftheircorrectnessandbroadertechnicalimplications.

• Willingnessandabilitytolearnunfamiliartechnologies,engineeringtools,andtechnicaldomains.

• Abilitytoworkeffectivelyinacollaborativeengineeringenvironment.

• Clearwrittenandverbalcommunicationskills.

PreferredQualifications

• Soundtechnicaljudgment,withattentiontocorrectness,simplicity,performance,maintainability,andoverallsoftwarequality.
• Experienceorknowledgeinoneormoreofthefollowingareasispreferred.
• Relevantexperiencemaybedemonstratedthroughcoursework,academicresearch,internships,open-sourcecontributions,technicalcompetitions,orpersonalprojects:

• Algorithmsandoptimization,includinggraphalgorithms,partitioning,clustering,matching,flowandcutalgorithms,heuristics,metaheuristics,orcombinatorialoptimization.

• Parallelandconcurrentprogramming,includingmultithreading,synchronization,taskscheduling,distributedcomputation,SIMDprogramming,vectorization,orGPUacceleration.

• Performanceengineering,includingprofiling,memoryoptimization,cache-awaredatastructures,workloadanalysis,oralgorithmictuning.

• Systemsprogramming,computerarchitecture,operatingsystems,compilers,orlarge-scaledataprocessing.

• ElectronicDesignAutomation,digitallogicdesign,simulation,emulation,verification,orsemiconductordesignworkflows.

• Experience with modernsoftwaredevelopmentworkflowsandtoolsonLinux,includingversioncontrolsystemssuchasGitorPerforce;buildtoolsandsystemssuchasMakeandCMake;testingframeworkssuchasGoogleTest;andpracticessuchascontinuousintegration,staticanalysis,andcodereview.

• Hands-on experience applying codingagentstomulti-stepsoftwareengineeringtasks,suchasrepositoryexploration,technicalplanning,implementation,buildexecution,testdevelopment,debugging,validation,anditerativerefinement.

• UnderstandingofAgenticSoftwareEngineering,includingthedisciplinedintegrationofcodingagents,deterministicengineeringtools,objectivevalidationmechanisms,andhumanengineeringjudgment.

• FamiliaritywithHarnessEngineering,includingthecontext,tools,executionenvironments,permissions,validationmechanisms,feedbackchannels,andoperationalguardrailsthatenablecodingagentstooperatereliably.

• FamiliaritywithLoopEngineering,includingiterativeagentexecution,progressevaluation,validationcheckpoints,retryandrecoverystrategies,andexplicitcompletionorstoppingcriteria.

• FamiliaritywithContextEngineering, includingstructuredtaskspecifications,repository-levelinstructions,relevantcontextselection,progressivecontextretrieval,andcontextmanagementacrossmulti-stepengineeringtasks.

• ExposuretoAgentOrchestration,includingtoolinvocation,taskdecomposition,workflowcoordination,sub-agentcollaboration,andintegrationbetweenmodel-drivenreasoninganddeterministicengineeringtools.

• ExperiencedevelopingorconfiguringAgentSkills,reusableworkflows,toolintegrations,orMCP-basedcapabilitiesthatencodedomainknowledgeandsupporttherepeatableexecutionofengineeringtasks.

• FamiliaritywithHuman-in-the-LoopControl,includingreviewcheckpoints,approvalboundaries,permissionmanagement,uncertaintyhandling,andescalationmechanisms.

• Experience using engineeringvalidationtechniquessuchascompilation,automatedtesting,regressionanalysis,staticanalysis,runtimediagnostics,orprofilingtoprovideobjectivefeedbackonagent-generatedsoftwarechanges.

• Demonstratedcuriosityaboutemergingsoftwareengineeringtechnologies,alongwiththeabilitytolearnthroughhands-onexperimentationandempiricalvalidation.

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