CareerPlan

AI Design Automation Engineer

San Jose, CaliforniaFull-time2026-09-10 → 2026-10-22
No visa sponsorship

Core

Build AI-powered engineering platforms and data pipelines that enable chip design teams to find, understand, and interact with complex semiconductor design data using natural language and agentic workflows.

Role type

Senior IC backend software engineer (AI/LLM & data infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable software systems, data pipelines, knowledge graphs, and AI/LLM-driven capabilities for semiconductor design

Domain

Semiconductor design / AI infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, backend system design, data pipeline engineering, LLM/agentic system development, knowledge graph construction, vector search, graph databases, TDD, distributed batch processing, time-series/relational data stores

Preferred skills

RTL/HDL/Physical Design semantics (SystemVerilog/Verilog), toolchains for hardware design source parsing, agent orchestration frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation

Technologies

Python, LLMs, knowledge graphs, vector search, graph databases, SystemVerilog, Verilog

Responsibilities

Design and build backend data pipelines for engineering data; evolve data schemas and queries for production scale; develop AI/LLM components for natural language interaction; diagnose and fix reliability/performance issues in distributed pipelines; tune LLM components for accuracy, cost, and latency; collaborate with architecture and design teams to translate needs into platform capabilities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC