Lead Solutions Engineer– Back Office Transformation

What You'll Do

• Partner with HR, Legal, Finance, Marketing, and other back-office teams to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for improvement. • Assess whether each opportunity is best addressed through process cleanup, standard automation, AI-assisted workflows, or agent-based solutions. • Design, prototype, test, deploy, and iterate on practical solutions that improve efficiency, visibility, accuracy, or cycle time. • Make pragmatic tradeoff decisions based on business impact, complexity, cost, security, maintainability, and user adoption. • Work closely with IT to obtain necessary access, data, and tools, while formalizing specifications that enable long-term support or handoff. • Document workflows, solution logic, assumptions, and implementation details in a way that both technical and non-technical stakeholders can understand. • Operate independently on technical investigations and solution development while proactively communicating progress, risks, and tradeoffs.
• What You’ll Accomplish in Your First 6 Months • Build a strong understanding of Cadence’s business, Office of the CEO priorities, and selected back-office workflows across multiple functions; use that context to deliver 1–2 practical early wins that reduce manual effort, improve visibility, or shorten cycle time. • Identify and prioritize at least five high-value optimization opportunities, clearly distinguishing when the right answer is process cleanup, standard automation, AI-assisted workflow, or a more agentic solution. • Prototype and iterate on at least two solutions with real end users, incorporating feedback and balancing business impact, usability, cost, complexity, and maintainability. • Establish a repeatable approach for future transformation work, including opportunity intake, prioritization, IT partnership, access/data/tooling considerations, and prototype-to-production handoff.
• Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. • 3–5 years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience through graduate-level work. • Strong Python programming skills and experience building practical tools, automations, or data-driven applications. • Working knowledge of Large Language Models, Generative AI, prompt engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation concepts including embeddings, search, generation, and caching . • Interest in or exposure to agentic development patterns, including workflows that use models, tools, memory, or external systems. • Familiarity with APIs, MCP, or other methods for connecting models and applications to data, tools, or business systems. • Ability to evaluate technical approaches in the context of business outcomes, user needs, maintainability, and operational constraints. • Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Preferred Experience • Direct e xperience taking AI, automation, or data-driven solutions from prototype to production, including testing, documentation, user feedback, and operational support considerations. • Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks or production AI agent development. • Exposure to cross-functional business environments (HR, Finance, Legal, or Marketing).
• You’ll Be Successful If You • Are comfortable with ambiguous business problems and can translate them into practical technical solutions. • Know when not to use AI and can recommend simpler approaches when they are faster, cheaper, or more maintainable. • Can work independently, ask good questions, and move from discovery to prototype without heavy direction. • Communicate clearly with technical partners and business stakeholders, and prioritize adoption and business impact over technical novelty.
• The annual salary range for California is $114,800 to $213,200.
• 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 paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.
• We’re doing work that matters.
• Help us solve what others can’t.