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

Cadence Design Systems Inc. is looking for a motivated  Product Validation Engineer II: Quality Assurance (QA) ChipStack AI to be part of the ChipStack AI Super Agent team in Belo Horizonte - working on the world’s first agentic AI platform that autonomously designs and verifies chips with up to 10× productivity gains. Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally and in Brazil, and is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. 

Job Description:

• Developing and executing test plans for the exploration of a variety of features, implementing automated tests for agentic AI flows.
• Analysis of functional and non-functional requirements. Validate end-to-end AI-driven design and verification workflows across RTL generation, testbench creation, regression, debugging, and auto-fix loops.
• Collaborate with R&D to define validation strategies and quality metrics.
• Reproduce, isolate, and root-cause complex cross-domain bugs.
• Provide actionable feedback to product and R&D teams to improve agent intelligence, robustness, and user experience.
• Validate cloud and on-prem deployments, ensuring scalability, security, and reproducibility of AI workflows.
• Participate in early customer evaluations by validating real customer deployments  

Requirements:

• Complete Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, etc.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux environment with good Version Control knowledge (Git)
• Familiarity with Python for test development, automation, and data analysis.
• Strong interest in AI-driven systems and enthusiasm for working in a fast-evolving technology landscape.
• Deep commitment to software quality, robustness, and reliability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and Portuguese.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of performance and API tests.
• Knowledge of hardware description languages such as SystemVerilog, Verilog.
• Understanding of verification methodologies (UVM, formal verification)
• Experience in EDA industry/tools. 

Additional Job Details:

• Employment category: CLT.
• Employment term: 40 hours/week.
• Competitive benefits.
• Location: Av. do Contorno 5800, Savassi, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 

About Cadence Design Systems:

Cadence is the only company that provides the expertise and tools, IP, and hardware required for the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to systems. We enable electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create innovative products that transform the way people live, work, and play. Our products are used in mobile, consumer, cloud datacenter, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. For more information, access http://www.cadence.com

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