Sr Principal Software Engineer (AIML)

Responsibilities

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