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Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally and is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.\nAs a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of the HSV Software team in the SVG group in San Jose, California.\nThe HSV Software team builds AI-enabled software products that support emulation and prototyping platforms, helping customers accelerate design bring-up, debug, verification, and validation workflows.\nTo understand more on what we do, you can visit https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/system-design-and-verification.html.\nWorking at Cadence is very dynamic, fast-paced, and integrated with other teams all around the world.\nJob Description:\nDesign and develop AI-enabled software components for emulation and prototyping workflows, balancing reliability, maintainability, security, latency, cost, and integration with existing product architecture.\nBuild LLM-based agents, RAG workflows, and automation services that improve design bring-up, verification, debug, and validation while recommending product enhancements beyond defect fixes.\nApply secure and responsible AI practices, including data protection, access control, prompt-injection awareness, safe tool use, auditability, and careful handling of sensitive design data.\nCreate and execute testing, evaluation, and observability workflows for assigned AI product areas, covering regression tests, retrieval quality, model-output review, tracing, and failure analysis.\nServe as a technical resource for peers and less-experienced engineers, collaborating with internal partners, senior individual contributors, and managers to deliver high-quality AI-enabled software.\nRequirements:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience; typically 4+ years with a Bachelor’s, 2+ years with a Master’s, or PhD-level preparation in related software development.\nStrong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, testing, debugging, maintainability, Unix/Linux environments, and distributed development workflows.\nHands-on experience building AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, or automation services using LLM APIs, open-source models, enterprise AI platforms, and orchestration tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar frameworks.\nUnderstanding of modern RAG and agentic AI patterns, including retrieval, chunking, embeddings, vector or hybrid search, reranking, tool calling, workflow orchestration, human-in-the-loop review, and traceability.\nAbility to evaluate, secure, and debug AI product behavior using golden datasets, regression tests, hallucination checks, prompt and retrieval analysis, observability traces, quality metrics, and responsible AI practices.\nNice to have:\nExperience developing software using version control systems and modern CI/CD practices.\nExperience with other programming languages such as C++, Tcl, or JavaScript/TypeScript.\nKnowledge or experience with design verification, emulation, prototyping, or hardware-assisted debug workflows.\nKnowledge or experience with EDA and VLSI design, including Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.\nExposure to practical AI application security, such as prompt-injection awareness, safe tool integration, access control, input/output validation, or secure handling of design data.\nAdditional Job Details:\nEmployment category: Full-time.\nEmployment term: 40 hours/week.\nCompetitive benefits.\nLocation: San Jose, California.\nAbout Cadence Design Systems:\nCadence is the only company that provides the expertise and tools, IP, and hardware required for the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to systems. 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