Intern Product Validation Engineering: AI Quality Assurance (QA)

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Cadence Design Systems Inc. is looking for a motivated Intern Product Validation Engineering: AI Quality Assurance (QA) to work with us in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to impact the world of technology. Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.

As an Intern Product Validation Engineering: AI Quality Assurance (QA) you will be part of the Hardware System Verification Software team in the SVG group in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. To understand more about what we do Click here. Working at Cadence is very dynamic, fast-paced, and integrated with other teams all around the world.

Job Description

• Support the validation of AI-powered product features by helping on executing test cases, recording results, and reporting issues under the guidance of senior team members.
• Learn how to evaluate AI agents and workflows, including prompt behavior, response quality, tool usage, error handling, and task completion.
• Help create, update, and run manual and automated test cases based on product requirements, real user scenarios, regression needs, and AI product quality checklists.
• Work with engineers to reproduce defects, collect logs or examples, document findings clearly, verify fixes, and use basic scripting or AI-assisted tools to improve validation efficiency.
• Collaborate with local and global product, engineering, and validation teams while developing practical skills in AI product quality and software validation.

Requirements

• Ongoing bachelor’s in computer science or computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Expected graduation in Jan/2028.
• Availability to work in person: Savassi, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• Good spoken and written English and Portuguese.

Nice To Have

• Software Development using version control systems.
• Fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Knowledge of using LLM, AI Agent
• Contact with EDA and VLSI design, including Verilog and VHDL languages.
• Contact/projects with C++.
• Interest in learning a scripting language - either Tcl or Python.

Additional Job Details

• Employment category: Internship
• Employment term: 20 hours/week.
• Location: Av Contorno 5800, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil.

About Cadence Design Systems Cadence is the only company that provides the expertise and tools, IP, and hardware required for the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to systems. We enable electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create innovative products that transform the way people live, work, and play. Our products are used in mobile, consumer, cloud datacenter, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. For more information, access http://www.cadence.com.

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