Lead UI Framework Engineer - Desktop Apps

Cadence Design Systems

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Cadence Design Systems is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for MSC Apex and related engineering software platforms. You will design, develop, and coordinate framework-level capabilities, including UI composition, docking/layout, and charting components, to support multiple product workflows.

The role requires strong C++/C# expertise, MVVM/MVC patterns, and deep experience with desktop frameworks.

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience delivering commercial or enterprise desktop applications.
Strong experience in UI Framework and Application Framework architecture, including reusable component design, application shell design, command frameworks, layout/docking systems, UI state management, and extensible framework services.
Strong hands-on experience with C++ and C# in large-scale desktop application development.
Experience designing and implementing framework-level components that support multiple product workflows, teams, and application modules.
Experience with charting, plotting, or data visualization components, including commercial libraries such as SciChart, Gigasoft, or equivalent charting technologies.
Strong background in UI architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVC, MVP, data binding, event routing, command patterns, dependency injection, and modular application design.
Experience diagnosing UI responsiveness issues, memory leaks, threading problems, rendering defects, framework integration issues, and performance bottlenecks in complex desktop applications.
Experience with Windows desktop application development and cross-platform UI considerations.
Avalonia experience is a significant plus, especially for modern cross-platform desktop UI development using C# and XAML-style UI patterns.
Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools to improve coding productivity, code review efficiency, documentation, and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

Design and develop reusable UI Framework and Application Framework capabilities for engineering desktop applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, responsiveness, and extensibility.
Provide technical leadership for application shell architecture, UI composition, command frameworks, docking/layout systems, state management, data binding, component integration, and framework service layers.
Design and guide implementation of charting and plotting components, including integration or customization of commercial charting libraries such as SciChart, Gigasoft, or equivalent technologies.
Lead framework design reviews, feasibility analysis, risk assessment, debugging, performance optimization, and implementation decisions in alignment with the product architecture.
Collaborate with product management, architecture, QA, program management, and engineering teams to translate product workflow needs into reusable framework capabilities.
Guide and mentor engineers on framework architecture, UI patterns, C++, and C# design practices, component ownership, testing strategy, and engineering best practices.
Contribute to technical roadmaps and communicate design tradeoffs, technical risks, progress, and implementation plans clearly to stakeholders and engineering leadership.