Senior Application Engineer - JedAI/Pulse Installation & Enablement

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

We are seeking an Application Engineer to support installation, configuration, and customer enablement of Cadence JedAI and Pulse technologies across diverse customer environments. This role focuses on deploying these tools, integrating them with other Cadence tools, and ensuring stable operation across multiple infrastructure configurations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support JedAI and Pulse installations including environment setup, configuration, and enterprise integration.
• Configure and validate services, such as: Index / vector database services, Embedding and reranking services, LLM gateway and API endpoints
• Work with customer IT, CAD, and security teams to align deployments with enterprise policies and infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues across services and logs
• Assist customers with Post-install validation, updates to vector databases and models, monitoring, stability, and capacity considerations
• Collaborate with R&D, Product Engineering, and Sales to resolve issues and drive successful adoption

• 5 yrs. industry experience supporting Cadence EDA tools in a customer-facing AE role
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Strong experience with Linux/Windows environments
• Familiarity with containerized applications
• Working knowledge of distributed services and configuration using YAML or similar formats
• Ability to debug issues using logs and service-level metrics
• Clear written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with Kubernetes concepts (Pods, services, resource allocation)
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, inference services, or vector databases
• Familiarity with version control systems, design databases, or PLM-style data governance models
• Familiarity with authentication mechanisms (API keys, tokens, access control)
• Experience supporting customer-managed infrastructure environments