[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Cadence Design jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Cadence Design · Home China +1 more # Principal Quality Engineer (CAE Cross-Domain) Home China +1 more Full-time Senior individual contributor Manufacturing & Production Listed on Cadence Design’s official careers site. Posted October 12, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Cadence Design’s careers site →](https://cadence.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Careers/job/HOME-CHINA/Principal-Quality-Engineer--CAE-Cross-Domain-_R56772-1) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Cadence Design](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/) / Principal Quality Engineer (CAE Cross-Domain) ## Job description At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. ### Position Summary We are seeking a Principal QA Engineer with strong CAE simulation software experience, deep quality engineering expertise, hands-on Python automation skills, and practical understanding of modern AI-assisted engineering practices. This role is responsible for defining and executing effective test strategies for Apex and related CAE products, validating complex engineering workflows, improving automation coverage, and driving high-quality release outcomes. The successful candidate will act as a senior quality authority who can work closely with development, product management, QA, application engineering, and customer-facing teams to identify risks early, strengthen validation practices, investigate complex issues, and ensure that CAE workflows are reliable, usable, performant, and technically accurate. ### Key Responsibilities - Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA engineers, establishing clear priorities, ownership, and expectations. - Provide day-to-day technical guidance while encouraging independent problem solving, collaboration, and continuous learning. - Own the team’s test strategy, release qualification approach, automation roadmap, and quality improvement plans. - Plan and balance testing activities across new features, regression, integration, performance, scalability, and end-to-end customer workflows. - Partner with development and product management to clarify requirements, identify quality risks early, and define appropriate validation coverage. - Review test plans, automation designs, engineering models, defect reports, and release-readiness evidence. - Remain hands-on in complex technical investigations, high-risk validation, customer-reported issues, and critical release decisions. - Drive the creation and maintenance of robust Python-based test automation and sustainable automation frameworks. - Use quality metrics and engineering evidence to communicate product status, risks, dependencies, and recommended actions to stakeholders. - Improve QA processes, test effectiveness, traceability, execution efficiency, and cross-team consistency. - Promote Agile collaboration through effective planning, reviews, retrospectives, and follow-through on improvement actions. - Coordinate effectively with global teams across time zones and support a respectful, inclusive, and accountable team culture. ### AI Leadership and Modern QA Practices - Guide the practical and responsible adoption of AI-assisted tools for test design, code generation, defect analysis, documentation, and quality reporting. - Ensure AI-generated code, test cases, summaries, and engineering outputs are reviewed, verified, traceable, and appropriate for their intended use. - Identify use cases where AI can improve test coverage, productivity, defect discovery, and knowledge sharing without weakening engineering judgment. - Help the team understand the capabilities, limitations, and risks of Generative AI and Large Language Models. - Protect confidential information and reinforce organizational policies when using external or enterprise AI tools. - Encourage experimentation with measurable outcomes and share effective AI-enabled QA practices across teams. ### Required Qualifications Education - Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline. - Master’s degree preferred. ### Experience - 12+ years of experience in software quality assurance, CAE simulation software validation, test strategy, release qualification, automation, or related engineering software domains. - Strong experience in software quality assurance, test strategy, release qualification, and defect management. - Proven ability to define detailed test plans, validation workflows, acceptance criteria, defect analysis approaches, and release-readiness evidence for complex engineering applications. - Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, coaching, feedback, and team-development support while promoting accountability and collaboration. - Strong engineering judgment, structured problem-solving skills, and ability to make evidence-based quality recommendations in complex technical situations. - Clear verbal and written English communication skills, with experience creating clarity across global teams and supporting changing priorities. - Customer-focused mindset, curiosity, humility, and willingness to learn and apply emerging technologies responsibly. ### Technical Skills - Strong understanding of FEA theory, structural mechanics, strength of materials, engineering simulation, and engineering design concepts. - Hands-on Python experience and a solid understanding of test automation architecture and maintainability. - Experience with one or more commercial CAE tools such as MSC Apex, MSC Patran, MSC Nastran, HyperMesh, ANSYS, or ANSA. - Experience validating engineering software, CAE applications, numerical workflows, or complex desktop products is highly desirable. - Understanding functional, regression, integration, performance, scalability, and end-to-end testing. - Familiarity with Agile software development and continuous improvement practices. ### Preferred AI Experience - Practical familiarity with AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or comparable technologies. - Understanding Generative AI and Large Language Model concepts, including accuracy, consistency, privacy, security, and validation considerations. - Experience introducing AI-assisted development or testing practices within an engineering team is a plus. - Ability to distinguish between tasks suitable for AI assistance and tasks requiring direct domain expertise or formal verification.N/A We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 12, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 18, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 6 days - Location: Home China +1 more - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Cadence Design’s careers site →](https://cadence.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Careers/job/HOME-CHINA/Principal-Quality-Engineer--CAE-Cross-Domain-_R56772-1) ## More jobs at Cadence Design ### [Lead Design Engineer (CAE Cross-Domain)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/c6f43eb28b0044d1670f/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Framework)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/bb2ff3772575e215760d/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Geometry)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/6a8fce08b9b2cbdecdda/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Graphics)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/f36ee60ef7f5374a7ed8/) Home China +1 more ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Principal Engineer, Supplier Quality](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cardinal-health/jobs/fcaa40e1458900f4e3d6/) Cardinal Health · Nakhon Pathom ### [Principal Quality Engineer, SGT](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/siemens-energy/jobs/22c6814754b28cc8e2d7/) Siemens Energy ### [Verificador/a CAE](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/sgs/jobs/b80d63799830127b2ccd/) SGS · Madrid, MD, Spain ### [Principal Quality Engineer or Senior Principal Quality Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/northrop-grumman/jobs/0fb6b2fb6e19c878eaab/) Northrop Grumman ### [Revisor/a Técnico/a CAE](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/sgs/jobs/3a15ec0fb3cbf8e0a64f/) SGS · Madrid, MD, Spain OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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