LLM Engineer for EDA & Chip Design — Post-Training

D24 Search Limited; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

D24 Search Limited, based in Santa Barbara, CA, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to advance post-training, fine-tuning, and evaluation of large language models for chip design and verification. You will take ideas from experiments to production, impacting AI agents used by leading semiconductor companies.

You will work with researchers and EDA experts to build robust data pipelines and evaluation tools, shaping model quality and reliability across RTL and hardware workflows.

Qualifications

• End-to-end model training experience including data collection, post-training, and evaluation.
• Degree in EE/CE/CS with ML focus.
• Experience with ML on hardware modalities or EDA (Netlists, RTL, Verilog, surrogate modeling, graph neural networks).
• 2–10 years as ML engineer or PhD with AI/ML emphasis.
• ML for EDA experience in academia or industry (Synopsys, Cadence, Keysight, Siemens, Apple, etc).
• Published papers at top-tier EDA or ML conferences.
• Experience building evaluation harnesses and data pipelines for large-scale training.
• Experience training, fine-tuning, or post-training large language models (SFT, RLHF).

Responsibilities

• Train, fine-tune, and post-train LLMs for chip design and verification tasks.
• Build and maintain data pipelines for training, including data collection, cleaning, and synthetic data generation.
• Design evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for model accuracy, reliability, and agent performance.
• Run experiments, analyze results, and iterate to improve model quality.
• Collaborate with research scientists, systems engineers, and EDA experts to productionize models.
• Keep up with emerging research and open-source work and apply it to our models.

Skills

End-to-end model training

Data pipeline development

Model evaluation frameworks

Experimentation and iteration

Collaboration with researchers

Academic research publication

SFT RLHF for LLMs

Education

B.S./M.S./PhD in EE/CE/CS with ML focus

Tools

C++

CUDA

GPU architectures

SGLang

vLLM

Model deployment tooling

Job description

D24 Search Limited, based in Santa Barbara, CA, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to advance post-training, fine-tuning, and evaluation of large language models for chip design and verification. You will take ideas from experiments to production, impacting AI agents used by leading semiconductor companies.

You will work with researchers and EDA experts to build robust data pipelines and evaluation tools, shaping model quality and reliability across RTL and hardware workflows.