Principal AI Forward Deployment Engineer
Location
Cary, NC
Job Type
Full-time
Category
other-general
Posted
June 29, 2026
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Role Summary
Cadence is hiring a Principal AI Forward Deployment Engineer to embed with strategic semiconductor customers and operationalize Cadence's AI and agentic solutions across their end-to-end silicon design flows. This is a senior, customer-facing applied-AI role for an experienced chip-design practitioner who can translate front-end, physical-design, and methodology workflows into concrete, measurable productivity wins powered by flagship LLMs and Cadence AI tooling. You will be the trusted technical lead at the customer who turns 'AI for chip design' from a slideware promise into a deployed, adopted, and ROI-positive reality.
Why This Role Exists
+ Customers are racing to apply LLMs and agentic AI to RTL, verification, implementation, and signoff - but they need a partner who deeply understands *both* their tape-out flows and how to wiel...
Role Summary
Cadence is hiring a Principal AI Forward Deployment Engineer to embed with strategic semiconductor customers and operationalize Cadence's AI and agentic solutions across their end-to-end silicon design flows. This is a senior, customer-facing applied-AI role for an experienced chip-design practitioner who can translate front-end, physical-design, and methodology workflows into concrete, measurable productivity wins powered by flagship LLMs and Cadence AI tooling. You will be the trusted technical lead at the customer who turns 'AI for chip design' from a slideware promise into a deployed, adopted, and ROI-positive reality.
Why This Role Exists
+ Customers are racing to apply LLMs and agentic AI to RTL, verification, implementation, and signoff - but they need a partner who deeply understands *both* their tape-out flows and how to wiel...