Chip-Design Infra Engineer for AI-Driven RTL-to-GDS

Ricursive Intelligence; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricrecursive Intelligence is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale the RTL-to-GDSII flow infrastructure for chip design. You’ll work across the design stack to run complex designs at scale, improving execution, evaluation, and iteration.

Your work will directly impact PPA in production by enabling faster, more reliable design cycles. You will collaborate with domain experts to productize cutting-edge algorithms, automate design analysis, and support production-ready flows across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, or related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, Java or similar.
• Working understanding of digital chip design flow from RTL to GDS/physical design.
• Experience integrating or orchestrating EDA tools within engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale infrastructure behind the end-to-end RTL-to-GDSII flow for scalable design.
• Collaborate with in-house experts to productize cutting-edge algorithms in production flow.
• Build infrastructure to run multi-stage design flows reliably across EDA tools.
• Analyze design metrics like timing violations and routing issues to improve PPA.
• Deploy AI-driven methods to automate design analysis and iteration across the flow.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

EDA tools

RTL-to-GDS flow tooling

Job description

Ricrecursive Intelligence is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale the RTL-to-GDSII flow infrastructure for chip design. You’ll work across the design stack to run complex designs at scale, improving execution, evaluation, and iteration.

Your work will directly impact PPA in production by enabling faster, more reliable design cycles. You will collaborate with domain experts to productize cutting-edge algorithms, automate design analysis, and support production-ready flows across