Sr Principal Software Engineer

About the role

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.

What you'll do

• 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

What you need

• 15–27 years in software engineering
• LLMs
• Machine learning
• Regression testing
• Prompt engineering
• ETL
• Test automation
• M.Sc or PhD or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA