Senior Design Engineer — AI-Driven Product Interfaces

ChipAgents; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity

Unlimited PTO

Full benefits

Office with parking and gym

Job summary

ChipAgents is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to own the product experience across CLI, web, IDE, and desktop interfaces. You will shape workflows from problem definition through launch, working with users, engineers, AI researchers, and leadership to deliver coherent, intuitive experiences.

You will translate chip design and verification workflows into productive user experiences, craft interaction models for AI agents, and drive quality across the engineering team, often coding parts yourself

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping user-facing software.
• Excellent frontend or product engineering skills.
• Exceptional product, interaction design, and information architecture judgment.
• Comfort making decisions under ambiguity and driving alignment without formal authority.
• The ability to reason through complete workflows, including edge cases and failure states.
• Experience working directly with users and translating technical needs into product decisions.
• The ability and desire to quickly learn unfamiliar technical domains.

Responsibilities

• Own the product experience across CLI, web, IDE, desktop, and other agent-native interfaces.
• Translate complex chip design and verification workflows into clear, efficient product experiences.
• Define how users interact with AI agents, including task creation, progress, review, approval, interruption, recovery, and failure handling.
• Work directly with customers and domain experts to understand their workflows and identify the right problems to solve.
• Develop prototypes and production interfaces when code is the fastest way to explore and validate an idea.
• Review and influence product work across the engineering team to maintain a consistently high quality bar.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Product empathy

UX judgment

Ambiguity tolerance

User research

Learning quickly

Job description

ChipAgents is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to own the product experience across CLI, web, IDE, and desktop interfaces. You will shape workflows from problem definition through launch, working with users, engineers, AI researchers, and leadership to deliver coherent, intuitive experiences.

You will translate chip design and verification workflows into productive user experiences, craft interaction models for AI agents, and drive quality across the engineering team, often coding parts yourself