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Cadence · Remote / flexible (United States) · Senior Level · Software engineering · posted 2 days ago
Cadence · San Jose, CA · posted 34 days ago
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| Employer | Cadence |
|---|---|
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Field | Engineering, Construction and Energy › Manufacturing and hardware engineering |
| Level | Senior Level |
| Source category | Science and Engineering |
| Posted | 2026-10-06 (34 days ago) |
| Work arrangement | On-site at the location listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Role Overview
We are seeking a mid-level Solutions Engineer to help drive efficiency and transformation across back-office business units, including HR, Legal, Finance, and Marketing. Sitting within the Office of the CEO, this role requires a company-wide perspective and the ability to work across functions to identify practical opportunities for improvement.
The role focuses on determining and implementing the right solution for each problem-whether that means process improvement, standard automation, AI-assisted workflows, or agent-based solutions that can reason, retrieve information, and take structured actions. The ideal candidate combines strong technical skills with business awareness, operates independently, and prioritizes practical outcomes over theoretical perfection.
Key Responsibilities
• Partner with HR, Legal, Finance, Marketing, and other back-office teams to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for improvement.
• Assess whether each opportunity is best addressed through process cleanup, standard automation, AI-assisted workflows, or agent-based solutions.
• Design, prototype, test, deploy, and iterate on practical solutions that improve efficiency, visibility, accuracy, or cycle time.
• Make pragmatic tradeoff decisions based on business impact, complexity, cost, security, maintainability, and user adoption.
• Work closely with IT to obtain necessary access, data, and tools, while formalizing specifications that enable long-term support or handoff.
• Document workflows, solution logic, assumptions, and implementation details in a way that both technical and non-technical stakeholders can understand.
• Operate independently on technical investigations and solution development while proactively communicating progress, risks, and tradeoffs.
What You'll Accomplish in Your First 6 Months
• Build a strong understanding of Cadence's business, Office of the CEO priorities, and selected back-office workflows across multiple functions; use that context to deliver 1-2 practical early wins that reduce manual effort, improve visibility, or shorten cycle time.
• Identify and prioritize at least five high-value optimization opportunities, clearly distinguishing when the right answer is process cleanup, standard automation, AI-assisted workflow, or a more agentic solution.
• Prototype and iterate on at least two solutions with real end users, incorporating feedback and balancing business impact, usability, cost, complexity, and maintainability.
• Establish a repeatable approach for future transformation work, including opportunity intake, prioritization, IT partnership, access/data/tooling considerations, and prototype-to-production handoff.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience through graduate-level work.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience building practical tools, automations, or data-driven applications.
• Working knowledge of Large Language Models, Generative AI, prompt engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation concepts including embeddings, search, generation, and caching.
• Interest in or exposure to agentic development patterns, including workflows that use models, tools, memory, or external systems.
• Familiarity with APIs, MCP, or other methods for connecting models and applications to data, tools, or business systems.
• Ability to evaluate technical approaches in the context of business outcomes, user needs, maintainability, and operational constraints.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Preferred Experience
• Direct experience taking AI, automation, or data-driven solutions from prototype to production, including testing, documentation, user feedback, and operational support considerations.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks or production AI agent development.
• Exposure to cross-functional business environments (HR, Finance, Legal, or Marketing).
You'll Be Successful If You
• Are comfortable with ambiguous business problems and can translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Know when not to use AI and can recommend simpler approaches when they are faster, cheaper, or more maintainable.
• Can work independently, ask good questions, and move from discovery to prototype without heavy direction.
• Communicate clearly with technical partners and business stakeholders, and prioritize adoption and business impact over technical novelty.
The annual salary range for California is $114,800 to $213,200. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.
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How San Jose compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, San Jose is #3 by population, #30 for household income (#1 = highest), #110 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #48 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Santa Clara County, is #1 of 58 counties for average pay ($197,043).
San Jose has 990,138 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.5% of the population of California. It covers 178 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 5,564 people per square mile. The median age is 38.2, about the same as the state median (38.2 against 37.9).
The median gross rent is $2,669 a month (rent plus utilities), 31% above the state median ($2,669 against $2,036). Over a year that is 21.9% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,233,200, which is 8.4 times the median household income ($146,427); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 55.8% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (55.8% against 55.9%).
The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area has 1,134,970 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $84,050 a year, 65% above the national median ($84,050 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are computer and mathematical (149,970 jobs, median $186,320); management (115,110 jobs, median $210,750); business and financial operations (94,210 jobs, median $125,240). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (3.9 times) and architecture and engineering (2.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($210,750) and legal ($195,190). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County was 4.2%. 67.6% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Santa Clara County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 62.9% drive alone, 2.4% use public transit, 1.8% walk, 20.3% work from home. 15.3% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 21% below the state average (15.3% against 19.4%).
47.3% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 28% above the state share (47.3% against 37.1%). 42.0% of residents were born outside the United States, 56% above the state share (42.0% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 8.1%, 32% below the state rate (8.1% against 12.0%).
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 68°F (19.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 47°F (8.3°C). About 510 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (114 mm) and Jul the driest (0 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
Closest cities in this guide: Campbell (8 miles, similar rent); Los Gatos (9 miles, rent 22% higher); Santa Clara (10 miles, rent 13% higher); Milpitas (10 miles, rent 17% higher). Rent differences are against San Jose; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.
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Places within 50 miles (straight line) of San Jose, CA that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.
| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 0 mi | $2,669 | $1,233,200 | $146,427 | 15.3% | n/a | Jobs |
| Campbell, CA | 8 mi | $2,737 | $1,617,000 | $145,268 | 10.4% | n/a | Jobs |
| Los Gatos, CA | 9 mi | $3,247 | $2,000,001 | $217,554 | 17.6% | n/a | — |
| Santa Clara, CA | 10 mi | $3,016 | $1,582,600 | $178,958 | 8.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Milpitas, CA | 10 mi | $3,120 | $1,251,700 | $178,798 | 15.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Saratoga, CA | 12 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 8.3% | n/a | — |
| Cupertino, CA | 13 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $234,707 | 9.1% | n/a | Jobs |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 13 mi | $3,039 | $1,801,800 | $186,170 | 9.0% | n/a | Jobs |
| Morgan Hill, CA | 15 mi | $2,474 | $1,210,200 | $163,920 | 32.9% | n/a | — |
| Fremont, CA | 15 mi | $2,933 | $1,403,800 | $181,506 | 23.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Mountain View, CA | 16 mi | $3,062 | $1,927,000 | $189,917 | 9.3% | n/a | Jobs |
| Los Altos, CA | 16 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 8.3% | n/a | — |
| Los Altos Hills, CA | 18 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 18.0% | n/a | — |
| Newark, CA | 19 mi | $2,776 | $1,142,800 | $169,064 | 22.2% | n/a | — |
| Palo Alto, CA | 19 mi | $3,484 | $2,000,001 | $231,101 | 8.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| East Palo Alto, CA | 21 mi | $2,244 | $1,102,600 | $113,493 | 9.7% | n/a | — |
| Menlo Park, CA | 22 mi | $3,239 | $2,000,001 | $210,025 | 11.5% | n/a | Jobs |
| Gilroy, CA | 24 mi | $2,301 | $1,027,400 | $133,107 | 32.4% | n/a | — |
| Atherton, CA | 24 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 7.0% | n/a | — |
| Union City, CA | 24 mi | $2,713 | $1,104,900 | $133,715 | 24.0% | n/a | — |
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How far San Jose, CA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 0 mi | 990,138 |
| San Francisco, CA | 73 mi | 830,235 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 296 mi | 3,857,263 |
| San Diego, CA | 407 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 604 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Seattle, WA | 714 mi | 754,195 |
| Denver, CO | 930 mi | 718,877 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,354 mi | 697,125 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 1,414 mi | 963,194 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,444 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,446 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Austin, TX | 1,459 mi | 979,539 |
| Houston, TX | 1,602 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Chicago, IL | 1,832 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 1,923 mi | 885,860 |
| Columbus, OH | 2,087 mi | 914,802 |
| Charlotte, NC | 2,270 mi | 903,844 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2,337 mi | 977,670 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2,497 mi | 1,579,706 |
| New York, NY | 2,550 mi | 8,483,844 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Campbell, CA | 8 mi | 7 |
| Milpitas, CA | 10 mi | 2 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 13 mi | 19 |
| Fremont, CA | 15 mi | 2 |
| Palo Alto, CA | 19 mi | 217 |
| Capitola, CA | 23 mi | 1 |
| Pleasanton, CA | 26 mi | 6 |
| Redwood City, CA | 27 mi | 30 |
| Belmont, CA | 30 mi | 2 |
| Alameda, CA | 39 mi | 38 |
| San Francisco, CA | 73 mi | 918 |
| Sacramento, CA | 90 mi | 49 |
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