About the role
Role Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Finding where AI agents fail, then designing and running evaluations to improve their performance, reliability and efficiency
- Building new agent capabilities, including tool interfaces, context management, memory and multi-step or multi-agent orchestration
- Digging into traces and experiment results to find bottlenecks, and telling real improvements apart from benchmark noise
- Working with customers and domain experts to understand what they need, then shipping and maintaining fixes from start to finish (within about 3 months)
- Turning successful experiments into well-built, maintainable production software
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python and TypeScript.
- Familiarity with modern language models, agent systems, and common ML workflows.
- Strong communication skills, customer judgment, and the ability to identify the crux of ambiguous technical problems.
- Self-directed and ambitious, with strong ownership, creativity, and product judgment.
- Strong commitment to customer and business outcomes.
Nice to Haves
- Interest in EDA, RTL, or hardware-software systems.
Why ChipAgents
- Own the software layer that turns cutting-edge ML research into scalable products at the intersection of AI and semiconductors.
- Join a fast-growing team working alongside industry veterans, real customers, and real production scale, not a role siloed from product impact.
- Shape your own scope across research collaboration, engineering, and customer-facing work based on your strengths and interests.
About ChipAgents
ChipAgents is revolutionizing the chip design and verification process with agentic AI tools tailored for the semiconductor industry. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, leverages advanced AI agents to streamline and enhance the design, debugging, and verification of RTL (Register Transfer Level) code, accelerating time-to-market for chip developers. We are committed to empowering hardware design and verification engineers by providing cutting-edge solutions that improve efficiency, scalability, and accuracy in chip development. Based in Santa Barbara, CA, Alpha Design AI is at the forefront of AI innovation in electronic design automation (EDA).
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Job details
Salary
$180,000 - $350,000
Location
San Jose, United States
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$74M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
John Bowers
Co-Founder
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.