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Senior/Staff AI Engineer, Agents

ChipAgents · San Jose · On-site

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About ChipAgents

AI-driven chip design and verification with ChipAgents. Iterate on Your Chip Design & Verification 10x Faster by Collaborating with ChipAgents in Your Favorite Code Editor. Backed by Bessemer.

About the role

We are hiring Software Engineers to improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of AI agents for hardware applications. You'll identify failure modes, design and run evaluations, develop new agent capabilities, and turn successful experiments into production software. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale production services
  • Strong backend engineering skills, with ownership of system architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost
  • Hands-on experience building production agent harnesses, including tool execution, context management, orchestration, durable state, and failure recovery
  • Ability to diagnose agent failures and turn experimental capabilities into reliable, customer-ready services
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability
  • Clear communication and strong ownership across engineering, research, product, and customer-facing teams
More about this role

ChipAgents is revolutionizing chip design and verification with agentic-AI workflows. Founded by experts in AI and semiconductor design, we partner with top-10 semiconductor companies, hyperscale cloud providers, and cutting-edge startups. Our platform accelerates RTL development, functional verification, and simulation, unlocking new levels of productivity and design quality.

We are hiring Software Engineers to improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of AI agents for hardware applications. You'll identify failure modes, design and run evaluations, develop new agent capabilities, and turn successful experiments into production software. You'll join a sizable, rapidly growing team of software engineers, researchers, hardware experts, customers, and founding and field teams, working across customer discovery, evaluation design, applied research, product development, and deployment for a broad range of hardware-engineering problems.

Identify failure modes in AI agents and design and run evaluations to measure and improve their performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Develop new agent capabilities and turn successful experiments into production software.

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