Forward Deployed Engineer

ChipAgents • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

ChipAgents is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer with a background in chip design, verification, and EDA who wants to build software. The role embeds directly with customer teams at large semiconductor companies, working alongside an internal R&D engineer and a customer-side domain expert. The engineer identifies customers’ underlying problems and builds new capabilities with them, beyond supporting the existing product.

The position focuses on turning field problems in RTL development and verification into working, shipped solutions. It includes owning customer relationships from problem definition through delivery, and writing code that connects ChipAgents to customer design flows, including RTL, testbenches, simulators, and verification environments. Frequent on-site customer travel is expected.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in chip design or design verification at a semiconductor, EDA, or hardware company.
• Working knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, and RTL; familiarity with verification flows such as testbenches, simulation, and debug.
• Software engineering skills; Python is required.
• Strong interest in working at the intersection of software and hardware.
• Comfort building under ambiguity and shipping custom working solutions without a stable specification.
• Experience using AI agents, especially coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to work directly with customer engineers and managers and translate field learnings into priorities for research and product teams.
• Comfort with frequent on-site customer travel.

Nice To Haves

• C++ or TypeScript skills.
• Experience with UVM, formal verification, or commercial EDA tools.
• Experience customizing AI agents.
• Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, applications engineering, or field engineering experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Experience with scripting and automation around design flows, such as Python, Tcl, or Makefiles.
• Experience standing up secure customer environments and data access.

Responsibilities

• Embed on-site or near-site with customer design and verification teams to build new solutions.
• Own the customer relationship end-to-end for an account, from problem definition to delivery of a working product.
• Collaborate with R&D, domain experts, and customer champions to turn field problems in RTL development and verification into shipped solutions.
• Write code connecting ChipAgents to customer design flows, including RTL, testbenches, simulators, and verification environments.
• Translate field learnings into clear priorities for research and product teams.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits.
• 401(k).
• Equity.
• Two engineering-centric offices with free parking, a private gym, and free lunch, drinks, and snacks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time