Software QA Automation Lead, AI Systems (SuperAgent Team)

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This strategy is supplemented by AI-augmented development practices throughout all our organizations to empower our team to focus on creative problem-solving and innovation. Our customers are the worlds most innovative companies delivering extraordinary electronic productsfrom chips to boards to systemsfor dynamic market applications including consumer hyperscale computing 5G communications automotive aerospace industrial and health. Join us and be part of a culture that values innovation collaboration and customer success.

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

Job Title: Senior Software QA Automation Engineer AI Systems (SuperAgent Team)

Location: Cork Ireland

Reports to: Software Engineering Director

Job Overview:

Chips are the heart of the modern world but the way we verify them is stuck in the past. The ChipStack SuperAgent Team is building the industrys first autonomous AI agent ecosystem designed to navigate the labyrinth of semiconductor design. However in the world of silicon a hallucination is a multi-million dollar mistake. We need a hands-on automation expert to ensure our agents are as reliable as the chips they help design.

As a Senior IC (Individual Contributor) QA Engineer you are the boots-on-the-ground architect of our testing infrastructure. Reporting to our QA Automation Lead youll be building the sophisticated Python and TypeScript frameworks that put our AI agents through their paces.

Youll be validating non-deterministic AI behaviors complex RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines clusters of coordinating agents and the deployment of these agents into both cutting-edge cloud environments and secure on-premise data centers.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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 stackfrom 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 LLMsgenerating synthetic test cases or using agents to analyze failure logs.
• The Domain: You dont 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.

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