Cadence Design Systems

AI Engineer, Ontologies & Knowledge Graphs

Cadence Design Systems$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and REST API development.
  • Experience with building ETL/ELT data pipelines for various data types.
  • Familiarity with graph databases and semantic data modeling.
  • Experience with agent frameworks like LangChain or CrewAI.
  • Understanding of how LLMs utilize context and tools.
  • Basic exposure to CAE/FEA/CFD or related engineering domains.
  • Comfortable navigating and adapting within complex codebases.

Responsibilities

  • Build ETL/ELT pipelines to extract and structure data from various sources.
  • Design and maintain schemas and semantic models for data entities.
  • Construct and maintain knowledge graphs from heterogeneous data.
  • Develop parsers for source code to automate structure extraction.
  • Create typed programmatic interfaces for the knowledge layer.
  • Implement indexing and retrieval systems for product knowledge.
  • Collaborate with domain engineers to break down complex workflows.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work across multiple products, enhancing diverse software capabilities.
  • Collaboration with domain engineers providing subject-matter expertise.
  • No expected travel, fostering a stable work environment.
  • Engagement in broad team alignment workshops occasionally.
Full Job Description

We are looking for an engineer who builds the data and interface layer that makes complex software products programmatically understandable. Many powerful products expose rich but heterogeneous surfaces — source code, scripting APIs, file formats, data structures, and workflow logic. This role builds pipelines that extract and transform those surfaces into structured, queryable knowledge — designing the schemas, constructing the knowledge graphs, and exposing them through clean, typed programmatic interfaces for downstream consumption.

Job Responsibilities

  • Build ETL/ELT pipelines that extract data from source code, APIs, file formats, and documentation and load it into a structured knowledge store.
  • Design and maintain schemas and semantic data models capturing entities, relationships, and capabilities.
  • Construct and maintain knowledge graphs over heterogeneous product data.
  • Develop source and metadata parsers (including source-code/AST parsing) to extract structure automatically.
  • Build typed programmatic interfaces and data-access layers over the knowledge layer.
  • Implement retrieval and indexing layers (e.g., embeddings, RAG) over product knowledge.
  • Work with domain engineers to decompose complex product workflows into discrete, callable operations.
  • Assess data sources for coverage, quality, and schema completeness across multiple products.

Job Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or similar.
  • Strong Python; experience building and consuming REST APIs.
  • Experience building data pipelines (ETL/ELT) over structured and unstructured data.
  • Familiarity with graph databases and/or semantic/ontology modeling (RDF, OWL, property graphs, or equivalent).
  • Experience with at least one agent framework (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar).
  • Understanding of how LLMs consume context and call tools (retrieval, RAG, embeddings).
  • Exposure to CAE/FEA/CFD or a related physical-simulation or engineering domain.
  • Comfortable working within unfamiliar or undocumented codebases.
  • Systems thinker — able to decompose a complex legacy workflow into discrete, callable steps.

Additional Skills/Preferences

Nice to have:

  • Vector databases.
  • Data-access and API interface development.
  • Parsing structured file formats.
  • Surrogate modeling or related numerical methods.

Deliberately not required:

  • Deep or specialist domain expertise beyond working familiarity — domain engineers provide that.
  • No PhD or ML research background required.

Additional Information

  • Works across multiple products, building structured knowledge and interfaces over their capabilities.
  • Collaborates closely with domain engineers who provide subject-matter expertise.
  • Works with data pipelines, graph databases, and product API surfaces.
  • Travel is not an expectation for this role. Occasional travel may occur for broad team alignment workshops, but these are infrequent.

About Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is an American multinational electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. The company produces software, hardware and silicon structures for designing integrated circuits, systems on chips (SoCs) and printed circuit boards.
Learn more about Cadence Design Systems
Size
9,300 employees
Market Cap
$43.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$590.6 million
Founded
2018
5 Year Trend
+10.5%
Revenue
$2.6 billion
NASDAQ

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