CareerPlan

Principal EDA R&D Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$232k2026-09-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead research, architecture, and development of core formal verification engines improved by Agentic AI frameworks to automatically break down large builds, coordinate solver strategies, and debug execution traces at scale.

Role type

Principal EDA R&D Engineer (Hardware Formal Verification)

Builds

Production-grade EDA tools and commercial tool suites

Domain

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) / Hardware Verification / Artificial Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Formal methods (Model Checking, SAT/SMT solvers, BDDs, Equivalence Checking, Theorem Proving), C/C++ (Modern C++17/20), Agentic AI pipelines, Multi-agent frameworks, RTL languages (System Verilog, VHDL), High-performance data structures, Memory optimization, Multi-threading

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Graph Neural Networks, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, System Verilog Assertions (SVA)

Responsibilities

Architect and advance formal verification algorithms; Design and deploy multi-agent AI systems for RTL analysis and solver tuning; Develop intelligent orchestration layers for state-space explosion handling; Develop engines for natural language to SVA generation; Drive features from research to implementation in high-performance C/C++ environments

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC