Software Engineer (Circuit Analysis, EDA frameworks, AI agents)

Skills of Interest

• Software quality practices: Experience with unit testing, CI/CD automation, and code review processes.
• AI-assisted development workflows: Ability to integrate AI tools into engineering workflows to enhance productivity and code quality.
• Machine Learning Engineering: Basic background in machine learning, background in ML, data pipelines, predictive modeling, and deployment. Practical knowledge of frontier LLMs (e.g., GPT-5/Claude/Gemini families) and how choices affect latency, cost, and reliability.
• Agent architecture: Familiarity with concepts such as ReAct (reason-act loops), planning/evaluation/self-correction, and persistent memory design, frameworks (e.g. LangChain), MCP, function/tool calling, and structured outputs.
• Data and retrieval: Understanding of RAG, retrieval pipelines, embeddings, chunking, and grounding.
• Context Engineering: designing structured context to produce consistent, predictable outputs despite changing LLM behavior.
• Familiarity with electronic design automation tools used for design of VLSI circuits is a plus.
• Familiarity with VLSI circuit simulation tools (Spice, Spectre) is a plus.
• The annual salary range for British Columbia is 89,600 CAD to 166,400 CAD. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.
• Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and holidays, leave of absence programs, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Tax Free Savings (TFSA) plan for post-tax investment savings, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, group health coverage that includes dental, vision and Emotional Wellbeing Support (EAP) benefits for you and your eligible dependents. Cadence also offers employee and dependent Life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability. In addition, Cadence provides Global Travel Medical coverage, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and a funded Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA).