Senior Founding Engineer, Core Platform (AI for Chip Design)

A young startup applying AI agents to semiconductor verification is looking for a senior engineer to take charge of its central agent platform. The ideal person has shipped production AI agent systems, has led engineering work, and enjoys the pace of an early-stage team as it grows with major chip makers.

The work

Contribute hands-on to the agent runtime, AI-native design-automation tooling and the core Python platform

Convert loosely defined problems into working AI systems, then improve them through traces, evaluations, telemetry and changes to how the product is delivered

Package and deploy the product in Podman containers for customers running on-prem, air-gapped environments

Direct a quick-moving, early-career team: find bottlenecks, set priorities and make architecture decisions with the technical head

Collaborate with forward deployed engineers so lessons from the field feed back into the product

What you bring

Roughly six or more years in software engineering (a little less is fine for a former founder or very early engineer)

Ownership of an LLM-based or agent application that ran in production

Experience leading a team or a significant project, preferably in a strong startup

Solid command of Python plus backend and systems fundamentals across Linux/Unix, containers, networking and storage

A university background in computer science, electrical or computer engineering from a well-regarded school

On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, five days a week. Visa transfers considered.