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Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally and in Brazil and is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.\nAs a Software Engineer II: AI Agents Hardware Verification, you will be part of Hardware System Verification Software team in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The Hardware System Verification Software team works with Palladium emulation platform and Protium prototyping platforms. To understand more on what we do, you can visit Click here. Working at Cadence is very dynamic, fast-paced, and integrated with other teams all around the world.\nJob Description:\nBuild and develop LLM-based agents using modern frameworks to automate complex design verification workflows.\nConnect AI agents to enterprise platforms so they can perform in wider workflows across products.\nDesign test suites to monitor and validate agent behavior, identify hallucinations and improve reliability\nImplement safety filters and human-in-the-loop mechanisms to ensure agents act within business constraints.\nRequirements: \nComplete bachelor’s in computer science or computer Engineering or equivalent experience.\nExperience with Software development: 2 years\nAdvanced proficiency in Python\nHands-on experience with orchestration tools like LangChain, CrewAI, LangGraph or AutoGen\nKnowledge of prompt engineering, tool calling and tokenization for models\nFamiliarity with RAG pipelines and vector databases\nExperience with Unix environment\nVery good spoken and written English and Portuguese. \nNice to have:\nExperience developing software using version control systems.\nExperience with other programming languages like C++, TCL.\nKnowledge/Experience with design verification.\nKnowledge/Experience EDA and VLSI design, including Verilog and VHDL languages.\nAdditional Job Details:\nEmployment category: CLT\nEmployment term: 40 hours/week.\nCompetitive benefits.\nLocation: Av Contorno 5800, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil.\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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