Forward Deployed Engineer
About The Position
ChipAgents is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer with experience in chip design, verification, and EDA who wants to build software. The engineer will embed directly with customer teams at large semiconductor companies, working alongside an internal R&D engineer and a customer-side domain expert. The role focuses on identifying customer problems and building new capabilities with customers, beyond supporting the existing product. The engineer will own customer relationships from problem definition through delivery of a working product, collaborate with R&D and customer stakeholders to turn RTL development and verification problems into shipped solutions, and write code connecting ChipAgents to customer design and verification flows. Frequent on-site customer travel is expected.
Requirements
- BS or MS 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, and familiarity with verification flows such as testbenches, simulation, and debug.
- Software engineering skills, including Python; C++ or TypeScript is a plus.
- Strong interest in working at the intersection of software and hardware.
- Comfort building under ambiguity and shipping custom working solutions without a stable specification.
- AI-native, with 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 clear priorities for research and product teams.
- Comfort with frequent on-site customer travel.
Nice To Haves
- 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 a working product in the customer's hands.
- Work 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.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO and full benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and 401(k).
- Two engineering-centric offices with free parking, a private gym, and free lunch, drinks, and snacks.
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Job Type
Full-time
