Software QA Automation Lead, AI Systems (SuperAgent Team)

What You'll Do

• Build the "Test Bench" for AI: Develop and maintain end-to-end automation frameworks using Python and TypeScript specifically designed to evaluate agentic reasoning and tool-calling accuracy.
• Agent Evaluation: Implement automated "Red Teaming" and regression suites that challenge our agents' ability to solve hardware verification problems without hallucinating.
• Full-Stack Automation: Own the quality of the entire stack—from the low-level API contracts of our agentic core to the React-based frontend where users interact with their "virtual co-engineers." Hybrid Environment Deployment: Automate testing across diverse infrastructures, ensuring our AI agents perform flawlessly whether they are running on AWS/Azure or behind a corporate firewall in an on-prem cluster.
• CI/CD Integration: Bake automated AI evaluation into our deployment pipelines, ensuring every merge meets the high-reliability standards of the EDA industry.
• Job Qualifications: Experience: 5+ years in Software QA Automation or Software Engineering in Test (SET).
• The Stack: Expert proficiency in Python (for backend/ML logic) and TypeScript (for frontend/integration testing).
• Infrastructure: Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes .
• You should be comfortable troubleshooting issues in both cloud-native and on-premise Linux environments.
• Automation Mastery: Proven track record of building scalable, maintainable test frameworks from scratch (e.g., PyTest, Playwright, or custom-built solutions).
• Education: Bachelors in CS, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Skills of Interest Agentic Frameworks: Curiosity or experience with agent building frameworks RAG & Vector DBs: Understanding of how to validate retrieval accuracy (e.g., measuring Precision/Recall for technical documentation retrieval).
• Prompt Engineering for QA: Using LLMs to test LLMs—generating synthetic test cases or using agents to analyze failure logs.
• The Domain: You don't need to be a chip designer, but a genuine interest in how silicon is built and verified will make you much more effective here.
• Our Culture Ship Fast, Ship Quality: We operate at startup speed but with the "zero-defect" mindset of the semiconductor world.
• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: We love a good technical debate.
• Bring your best ideas, but be ready to pivot when the data points elsewhere.
• Craftsmanship: We take pride in clean code, even (especially) in our test suites.
• Check what we can offer you: Competitive salary 25 days holiday per year Private Medical and Dental plans, Income Protection and Life Insurance Group Personal Pension Plan Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities Employee Stock Purchase Plan The opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work© & Fortune 100 organization Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization.
• We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• We’re doing work that matters.
• Help us solve what others can’t.