# Senior/Staff AI Engineer, Agents at ChipAgents

- Company: ChipAgents
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://chipagents.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Apply by: 2026-11-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alpha-design-ai-inc/670bb98c-01f1-49e5-9cd4-1aaf018c017a?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chipagents-senior-staff-ai-engineer-agents/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chipagents-senior-staff-ai-engineer-agents/