Sr Principal Software Engineer

Role overview

Sr Principal Software Engineer at Cadence

Design and implement scalable infrastructure for AI agents operating within Cadence’s ChipStack SuperAgent ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Build robust evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and alignment with engineering workflows.
• Develop data pipelines, retrieval systems, and context-engineering strategies to support consistent and grounded agent behavior.
• Contribute to continuous integration, automated testing, and observability systems to ensure production-quality deployment of AI-enabled systems.
• Optimize system performance across latency, cost, reliability, and scalability dimensions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field with 15+ Years of relevant experience in software development.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design, refactoring, debugging, and testing of complex distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience building production-quality systems.
• Understanding of large language models (LLMs) and practical considerations for deploying them in real-world systems (latency, cost, reliability, monitoring).
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for AI systems, including benchmarking, regression testing, and failure analysis.
• Skills of Interest
• Agent architecture: Experience with reason–act loops, planning/evaluation/self-correction patterns, tool/function calling, persistent memory systems, and structured outputs.
• LLM engineering: Familiarity with frontier LLMs and trade-offs across model families; experience with prompt engineering, context management, and alignment techniques.
• Retrieval and data systems: Understanding of RAG pipelines, embeddings, indexing strategies, chunking methodologies, and grounding techniques.
• Infrastructure and observability: Experience building logging, tracing, monitoring, and evaluation systems for ML/AI applications.
• AI-assisted development workflows: Leveraging AI tools to enhance engineering productivity and code quality.
• Interest in semiconductor design, EDA workflows, and high-performance computing environments.
• Our Culture
• Challenge the status quo: We are innovators who challenge industry norms and push forward our vision of how silicon should be built.
• Strong opinions, loosely held: We are low on ego, but high on collaboration.
• We are okay to be wrong and are always open to learning.
• Ship fast, ship quality: We ruthlessly prioritize what matters.
• We build at lightning speed, but never compromise on the high standards required by the semiconductor industry.
• Proud of our craft: Attention to detail is in our DNA.
• We take pride in what we build and go the extra mile to ensure an exceptional experience for our users.
• Behavioral

Required skills

• Must possess strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrate teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Ability to establish a close working relationship with both customer peers and management.
• Explore what’s possible to get the job done, including creative use of unconventional solutions
• Work effectively across functions and geographies
• Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity
• We’re doing work that matters.
• Help us solve what others can’t.

Employment details

• Location: BANGALORE 05, BANGALORE

About the employer

• Chips are at the center of today's tech-driven world.
• But how we design and verify them has not fundamentally changed in decades, while their complexity and specialization have skyrocketed due to increasing performance demands from AI.
• We are a dynamic, fast-moving team of software developers, ML scientists, and research-minded engineers on a mission to change that.
• Operating with the agility of a startup but backed by industry-leading verification technologies, we are part of the System Verification Group (SVG).
• Our charter is to develop state-of-the-art EDA software and hardware platforms (including Xcelium, Jasper, Palladium, Protium, and Helium) and supercharge them with cutting-edge AI, automation, and advanced data-driven workflows.
• About This Role
• Cadence Design Systems is the leading provider of design automation tools for electronic and intelligent systems design.
• The ML / Software Engineer – ChipStack SuperAgent Team will be responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating AI agents that enhance productivity across the semiconductor design lifecycle.
• This engineer will contribute to the development of robust agent infrastructure, evaluation systems, and production-grade AI capabilities integrated within Cadence’s electronic design automation (EDA) ecosystem.
• The role focuses on building reliable, scalable agentic systems that operate within complex engineering workflows.
• The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience in ML systems and agent infrastructure, enabling deployment of high-impact AI solutions in production environments.

Additional role details

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