Senior AI Engineer — Production-ready Agentic AI for Hardware

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

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Full benefits (medical, vision, dental

Two engineering offices with parking

Job summary

ChipAgents is hiring software engineers to enhance AI agents for hardware applications, improving performance, reliability, and efficiency. You will identify failure modes, design evaluations, and turn experiments into production software, joining a sizable team across engineering, research, and customer-facing work.

We offer base salaries between $250k and $350k per year plus equity, unlimited PTO, full benefits, and two engineering-centric offices with parking and amenities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with shipping and operating large-scale production services.
• Strong backend engineering ownership over architecture, scalability, reliability and cost.
• Hands-on experience building production agent harnesses and orchestration systems.
• Diagnose agent failures and translate experiments into reliable services.
• Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript with emphasis on code quality.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Software engineering

Backend engineering

Python

TypeScript

Production services

Code quality

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Agent harnesses

Context management

Orchestration

Durable state

Failure recovery

Job description

ChipAgents is hiring software engineers to enhance AI agents for hardware applications, improving performance, reliability, and efficiency. You will identify failure modes, design evaluations, and turn experiments into production software, joining a sizable team across engineering, research, and customer-facing work.

We offer base salaries between $250k and $350k per year plus equity, unlimited PTO, full benefits, and two engineering-centric offices with parking and amenities.