Lead Product Validation Engineer

Cadence Design Systems; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is seeking a Lead Product Validation Engineer to develop and execute test plans for their AI platform, JedAI. The role requires 3-5 years of experience in development and testing, proficiency in C/C++, and excellent communication skills. Candidates will work independently and within a distributed team to ensure product quality and functionality are verified. This position may require travel greater than 10%.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of development + testing experience.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Develop & execute test plans for JedAI and AAI lib.
• Create new test cases to validate product features.
• Review product quality and assess quality gaps.
• Integrate customer test cases into regression suite.
• Maintain regression tests and report failures.

Skills

C/C++

Scripting (Perl, Python, Shell)

Debugging & Analysis

Excellent communication and organization skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Windows

Job description

Overview

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

Job Title

Job Title: Lead Product Validation Engineer

Location

Location: Cork/Cambridge

Reports to

Reports to: Software Engineering Group Director

Job Overview

As PV engineer, this person will be responsible for product validation [quality engineering]: developing and running of regression suites to verify the functionality and performance of JedAI. JedAI is the Cadence Agentic AI platform. The functionality to be tested covers all of agentic AI: LLM services, embeddings, workflows, and agents. This person should have effective personality & communication skills to work within a geographically distributed group, and with cross functional groups [such as R&D and PE]. This person should be able to work independently, being able to collaborate remotely with team members.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop & execute the test plans for JedAI and AAI lib
• Create new test cases to verify/validate new features/enhancements
• Work with R&Ds to review product quality, provide assessment on quality gaps and create and integrate test cases to fill quality gaps
• Work with PEs to integrate customer test cases as part of regression suite
• Maintain regression tests for regular test cycles and report failures to R&D and management
• Validate and close fixed tickets

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
• 3-5 years of development + testing experience with:
• C/C++
• Scripting (Perl, Python, Shell)
• Debugging & Analysis
• Development / Test experience on Linux & Windows environment
• Excellent communication and organization skills.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• The person should have excellent product validation skills

Additional Information

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.

Travel: >10%

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