AI/LLM Systems Engineer – HLS Tools

Cadence Design Systems; Cork; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Private Medical & Dental

Pension plan

Cycle to work & gym subsidy

Volunteer days

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems in Cork, Ireland, is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Stratus HLS AI/LLM Systems team. You will write production-quality C++ and Python, design LLM-based agent systems, and develop IDE tooling in a fast-moving environment.

Work includes implementing AI agent features, building pipelines, and contributing to RAG pipelines while collaborating with senior engineers to understand HLS workflows and apply that knowledge to well-engineered solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience; or Master’s degree with 1+ year of relevant industry experience.
• Solid programming skills in C++ or another compiled, statically typed language, with memory management and performance trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Implement AI agent features that leverage LLMs for tasks such as code interpretation, code completion and code generation within the Stratus HLS environment.
• Build and test agentic pipelines that connect Stratus tools and APIs to deliver context-aware guidance to users.
• Apply prompt engineering techniques and contribute to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to improve AI responses.
• Author and maintain Skills, including slash commands for AI coding agents.
• Design Skills that orchestrate multi-step agentic flows to automate Stratus operations.

Skills

C++

Python

LLM APIs

Data structures

Algorithms

Testing

Code quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

VS Code Extension API

Language Server Protocol

GitHub Copilot

openCode

Job description

Cadence Design Systems in Cork, Ireland, is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Stratus HLS AI/LLM Systems team. You will write production-quality C++ and Python, design LLM-based agent systems, and develop IDE tooling in a fast-moving environment.

Work includes implementing AI agent features, building pipelines, and contributing to RAG pipelines while collaborating with senior engineers to understand HLS workflows and apply that knowledge to well-engineered solutions.