Senior AI Engineer - Production Agent Systems for Chips

ScOp Venture Capital LLC.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical benefits

401k

Free lunch

Job summary

ChipAgents is 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 engineers, researchers, hardware experts, customers, and field teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale production services.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with ownership of system architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Hands-on experience building production agent harnesses, including tool execution, context management, orchestration, durable state, and failure recovery.
• Ability to diagnose agent failures and turn experimental capabilities into reliable, customer-ready services.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Clear communication and strong ownership across engineering, research, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to set architectural direction, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Identify failure modes in AI agents and design and run evaluations to measure and improve their performance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Develop new agent capabilities and turn successful experiments into production software.
• Design effective evaluations based on interactions with customers and domain specialists.
• Analyze traces and experimental results to identify bottlenecks.
• Develop tool interfaces, context-management systems, memory, and multi-step or multi-agent orchestration.
• Form clear hypotheses, test ideas quickly, and distinguish meaningful improvements from benchmark noise.
• Move between experimental work and pragmatic product engineering as needed.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Backend engineering

Production services

Job description

ChipAgents is 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 engineers, researchers, hardware experts, customers, and field teams.