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# Lead Solutions Engineer- Back Office Transformation

- **Company:** Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,800.0 - $213,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Business Systems, Database Applications, Python (Programming Language), Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Agentic-AI, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.sanjosejobsite.com/job.asp?id=3466804573&tx=KL8787FFR&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

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., * 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 e xperience 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.

## Description

* 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.