ML Research Engineer, EDA for Chips — Equity & Unlimited PTO

ChipAgents; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 350.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Unlimited PTO

Full benefits

Offices with parking

Descripción de la vacante

ChipAgents is hiring Research Engineers to apply machine learning to electronic design automation (EDA). You will own research projects from problem definition through data, modeling, and evaluation, delivering capabilities into the ChipAgents platform.

Ideal candidates have strong ML fundamentals, experience with DL models in PyTorch, and familiarity with the digital design flow from RTL to power analysis. This role offers impact across design flows and production-grade research software.

Formación

• Strong ML fundamentals and hands-on experience designing, training, and debugging deep learning models.
• Experience with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks.
• Understanding of the digital design flow RTL through timing/power analysis.
• Experience running and scripting EDA tools, commercial or open source.
• Proven track record writing research code that others build on.

Responsabilidades

• Lead research projects that apply ML to power, performance, and area problems in chip design, from problem definition to production.
• Build datasets and benchmarks from EDA tool flows across a range of designs and technologies.
• Design, train, and evaluate ML models on hardware design data.
• Form clear hypotheses, set strong baselines, and distinguish meaningful improvements from benchmark noise.
• Work with engineering and product teams to bring research results into the ChipAgents platform.
• Write well-architected, maintainable code that others can build on.

Conocimientos

ML fundamentals

Python programming

Research methodology

Communication

Educación

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field

Herramientas

PyTorch

EDA tools

Descripción del empleo

ChipAgents is hiring Research Engineers to apply machine learning to electronic design automation (EDA). You will own research projects from problem definition through data, modeling, and evaluation, delivering capabilities into the ChipAgents platform.

Ideal candidates have strong ML fundamentals, experience with DL models in PyTorch, and familiarity with the digital design flow from RTL to power analysis. This role offers impact across design flows and production-grade research software.