Lead Software Engineer

Location: ZHUBEI 01

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

SkillsYou’llNeed:MinimumQualifications

• Bachelor’sorMaster’sdegreeinComputerScience,ElectricalEngineering,ComputerEngineering, Math, orarelatedtechnicalfield.
• ProficiencyinCorC++programmingonLinux,demonstratedthroughcoursework,academicresearch,internships,open-sourcecontributions,orpersonalprojects.
• Solidunderstandingofdatastructures,algorithms,computationalcomplexity,andobject-orientedprogramming.
• Stronganalyticalandproblem-solvingskills,withtheabilitytobreakdowncomplextechnicalproblemsanddeveloplogical,structuredsolutions.
• Basicunderstandingofsoftwaredebuggingandtestingprinciples.
• Familiaritywithcodingagentsandtheirapplicationtosoftwaredevelopmenttaskssuchascodebaseexploration,implementation,debugging,testdevelopment,anddocumentation.
• Abilitytoreviewandvalidateagent-generatedresults,withanunderstandingoftheircorrectnessandbroadertechnicalimplications.
• Willingnessandabilitytolearnunfamiliartechnologies,engineeringtools,andtechnicaldomains.
• Abilitytoworkeffectivelyinacollaborativeengineeringenvironment.
• Clearwrittenandverbalcommunicationskills.

PreferredQualifications

• Soundtechnicaljudgment,withattentiontocorrectness,simplicity,performance,maintainability,andoverallsoftwarequality.
• Experienceorknowledgeinoneormoreofthefollowingareasispreferred.
• Relevantexperiencemaybedemonstratedthroughcoursework,academicresearch,internships,open-sourcecontributions,technicalcompetitions,orpersonalprojects:
• Algorithmsandoptimization,includinggraphalgorithms,partitioning,clustering,matching,flowandcutalgorithms,heuristics,metaheuristics,orcombinatorialoptimization.
• Parallelandconcurrentprogramming,includingmultithreading,synchronization,taskscheduling,distributedcomputation,SIMDprogramming,vectorization,orGPUacceleration.
• Performanceengineering,includingprofiling,memoryoptimization,cache-awaredatastructures,workloadanalysis,oralgorithmictuning.
• Systemsprogramming,computerarchitecture,operatingsystems,compilers,orlarge-scaledataprocessing.
• ElectronicDesignAutomation,digitallogicdesign,simulation,emulation,verification,orsemiconductordesignworkflows.
• Experience with modernsoftwaredevelopmentworkflowsandtoolsonLinux,includingversioncontrolsystemssuchasGitorPerforce;buildtoolsandsystemssuchasMakeandCMake;testingframeworkssuchasGoogleTest;andpracticessuchascontinuousintegration,staticanalysis,andcodereview.
• Hands-on experience applying codingagentstomulti-stepsoftwareengineeringtasks,suchasrepositoryexploration,technicalplanning,implementation,buildexecution,testdevelopment,debugging,validation,anditerativerefinement.
• UnderstandingofAgenticSoftwareEngineering,includingthedisciplinedintegrationofcodingagents,deterministicengineeringtools,objectivevalidationmechanisms,andhumanengineeringjudgment.
• FamiliaritywithHarnessEngineering,includingthecontext,tools,executionenvironments,permissions,validationmechanisms,feedbackchannels,andoperationalguardrailsthatenablecodingagentstooperatereliably.
• FamiliaritywithLoopEngineering,includingiterativeagentexecution,progressevaluation,validationcheckpoints,retryandrecoverystrategies,andexplicitcompletionorstoppingcriteria.
• FamiliaritywithContextEngineering, includingstructuredtaskspecifications,repository-levelinstructions,relevantcontextselection,progressivecontextretrieval,andcontextmanagementacrossmulti-stepengineeringtasks.
• ExposuretoAgentOrchestration,includingtoolinvocation,taskdecomposition,workflowcoordination,sub-agentcollaboration,andintegrationbetweenmodel-drivenreasoninganddeterministicengineeringtools.
• ExperiencedevelopingorconfiguringAgentSkills,reusableworkflows,toolintegrations,orMCP-basedcapabilitiesthatencodedomainknowledgeandsupporttherepeatableexecutionofengineeringtasks.
• FamiliaritywithHuman-in-the-LoopControl,includingreviewcheckpoints,approvalboundaries,permissionmanagement,uncertaintyhandling,andescalationmechanisms.
• Experience using engineeringvalidationtechniquessuchascompilation,automatedtesting,regressionanalysis,staticanalysis,runtimediagnostics,orprofilingtoprovideobjectivefeedbackonagent-generatedsoftwarechanges.
• Demonstratedcuriosityaboutemergingsoftwareengineeringtechnologies,alongwiththeabilitytolearnthroughhands-onexperimentationandempiricalvalidation.
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