Digital - ASIC Design Automation Engineer

Eliyan; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in Bay Area / Vancouver / TO

Job summary

Eliyan is seeking an engineer to own the Jenkins-based design flow and add an AI layer to triage lint and CDC, reducing manual review across RTL, CDC, and synthesis. You will build dashboards and automated PRs that arrive pre-organized for review.

This on-site role in the Bay Area or Canada requires hands-on tooling experience, strong Python, and experience with LLM APIs to enable reliable gatekeeping before tapeout.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years building automation, CI/CD, or tooling in hardware/EDA environments.
• Strong Python, Tcl, shell scripting, Git, Linux, and Makefiles.
• Hands-on Jenkins or GitLab/GitHub CI with pipeline rearchitecture experience.
• Familiarity with RTL front-end flow and SystemVerilog for reading lint/CDC outputs.
• Experience with LLM APIs or agent frameworks applied to real tooling.
• Ability to work on-site in the Bay Area, Vancouver, or Toronto; US/Canada work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Own the Jenkins-based CI for RTL quality across lint, CDC, RDC, elaboration, synthesis, and STA.
• Build automated gating and handoff evidence so promotions become a button.
• Create per-project QoR dashboards to surface regressions and root causes.
• Develop front-end release methodology and cross-team gating plus waiver management.

Skills

Python

CI/CD tooling

Shell scripting

Git

SystemVerilog

Makefiles

LLM APIs

Technical writing

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

EDA tooling (lint/CDC)

Job description

AI-Augmented Design Flows CI/CD for RTL Lint / CDC / Synthesis Automation

ABOUT THE ROLE

Eliyan is the chiplet interconnect pioneer behind NuLink, the industry's most efficient chiplet-to-chiplet PHY technology. With Series C funding from leading hyperscalers and AI infrastructure providers, we are scaling our digital design organization to support multiple concurrent IP programs across advanced process nodes. Here is the honest version of this job. Our digital designers spend part of every week doing work a machine should be doing: re-running lint and CDC by hand, reading thousands of violations to find the twenty that matter, chasing down which synthesis run regressed QoR, and manually assembling the evidence that a branch is clean enough to promote to release. Your job is to make that work disappear. You will own our Jenkins-based design flow infrastructure end to end and build the AI layer on top of it: agent-driven triage that filters lint and CDC noise down to the real issues, and automated pull requests that arrive pre-organized so a designer reviews a decision instead of excavating a log. The team is small enough that tooling you ship on Monday changes how it works on Tuesday. MUST BE WILLING TO WORK ONSITE - M-F

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Flow Automation and Quality Gates, and Release Promotion

• Own the Jenkins-based CI for RTL quality across active design programs: lint, CDC, RDC, elaboration, synthesis, and STA. Optimize for turnaround time, not only coverage.
• Build the dev-to-release promotion pipeline: automated gating that qualifies a branch on clean runs and produces the handoff evidence, so promotion becomes a button rather than a checklist.
• Build synthesis and timing result tracking: per-project dashboards that make QoR regressions obvious and attributable to the commit that caused them.
• Own the front-end release methodology: release criteria, handoff checkpoints, cross-team gating, and waiver management across lint and CDC tools.

AI-Augmented Tooling

• Build agent-driven violation triage: LLM pipelines that classify lint and CDC output, suppress known-benign patterns, cluster related violations, and surface the real ones with context.
• Build automated pull requests that arrive with violations already filtered, grouped, and annotated, turning a triage session into a review.
• Implement spec-to-RTL consistency checking using LLM-driven diff and review pipelines, plus CI integrated documentation generation.
• Own evaluation and guardrails: benchmark output quality, measure false-negative rates against real violation data, and set the guardrails the team can trust.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years building automation, CI/CD, or engineering tooling in a hardware, EDA, or infrastructure environment.
• Strong Python, plus Tcl, shell scripting, Git, Linux, and Makefiles. You are comfortable owning a codebase, not only writing scripts.
• Hands-on Jenkins (or GitLab CI / GitHub Actions) at a level where you have debugged and rearchitected a pipeline, not only used one.
• Working knowledge of the RTL front-end flow and SystemVerilog — enough to read lint and CDC output and reason about which violations matter.
• Practical experience with LLM APIs or agent frameworks (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or equivalent), applied to something real that other people used.
• Strong technical writing, and authorization to work in the United States or Canada as applicable to the office location; sponsorship may be considered for exceptional candidates.
• On-site Monday through Friday at our Bay Area, Vancouver, or Toronto office. This role is not remote.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with industry-standard EDA tools (Synopsys VCS, Verdi, PrimeTime, Design Compiler; Cadence Genus; Spyglass; Questa; JasperGold).
• Background in data engineering or ML systems: evaluation harnesses, retrieval pipelines, or production inference.
• Exposure to digital design, SoC, PHY, SerDes, or chiplet interconnect domains.
• Open-source contributions to design automation, hardware verification, or developer tooling.

A NOTE ON FIT

The AI work here is applied engineering, not research: prompt and agent design, evaluation harnesses, and the plumbing that makes a pipeline reliable the night before a tapeout deadline. If your goal is to train models or publish, this is not the right role. The role can also grow toward digital design ownership over time, with senior mentorship available.