Alpha Design Ai Inc

Software Engineer, ML for EDA

San Jose. Posted 10 days ago

The role

Software Engineers will build production systems for machine learning work in electronic design automation. You will turn research into reliable software for the ChipAgents platform and customer design environments.

What you will do

  • Build and maintain production software for the ChipAgents platform.
  • Integrate with EDA tools, flow scripts, libraries, and compute infrastructure.
  • Build data pipelines and tooling for training and evaluation datasets.
  • Deploy and support software in customer environments including on-premises and restricted-network setups.
  • Turn repeated integration work into reusable tools.
  • Own the reliability and performance of systems.
  • Bring customer feedback and feature requests back to research and product teams.
  • Write well-architected, maintainable production code.

Required qualifications

  • Strong software engineering skills in Python.
  • Experience building production systems in Linux environments.
  • Familiarity with the digital design flow (synthesis, place and route, timing and power analysis) and the EDA tools used to run it.
  • Working knowledge of machine learning and how ML systems are trained, evaluated, and deployed.
  • Experience deploying software into customer or enterprise environments, including compute farms (LSF, Slurm), containers, and restricted networks.
  • Strong communication skills and customer judgment.
  • Self-directed, with strong ownership and a commitment to customer and business outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with commercial EDA tools including Tcl scripting.
  • Experience as an engineer at an EDA vendor or semiconductor company.
  • Familiarity with EDA data formats such as Verilog, Liberty, LEF/DEF, SDC, and SPEF.
  • Experience with open-source EDA tools.
  • Experience with LLMs or agent systems.
  • MLOps experience with model packaging, versioning, and monitoring.

Benefits

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

About the company

ChipAgents is an equal opportunity employer. The team works on taking ML research into production on real chip designs.