# Backend EDA Compiler Engineer at Partcl

- Company: Partcl (YC P25)
- What the company does: Design a chip in minutes. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://partcl.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/partcl/jobs/ldnI504-backend-eda-compiler-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/partcl-backend-eda-compiler-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for engineers who think in terms of intermediate representations and passes — people who can design the data models that physical-design tools run on, not just use them. You should be able to move seamlessly between high-level IR design and low-level performance work, building the infrastructure that lets placement, routing, and timing engines operate at massive scale.

## What they're looking for

- Strong background in compilers or IR design (LLVM, MLIR, TVM, CIRCT, or equivalent experience)
- Proficiency in Rust for low-level systems work, Python for tooling and pipelines
- Experience designing data structures for large graphs / sparse relations / geometric data
- Understanding of incremental computation, dependency tracking, and versioning of IR states
- Ability to reason about correctness, determinism, and reproducibility in complex toolchains
- Comfortable digging into massive designs and fixing pathological corner cases

Tags: Engineering