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Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)
$150K–$400K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- At least 1–5+ years; fast-moving startup experience is ideal.
About the job
Build and deploy agentic tools, operating systems, and internal products that help ASIC engineers accelerate hardware development.
What you'll do
- Embed with the ASIC team to identify bottlenecks and deliver tools engineers use in their daily work.
- Build LLM agents and sandboxed execution environments integrated with engineering workflows.
- Ship internal products, design evaluations, and track adoption and effectiveness.
What they ask for
- At least 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end.
- Experience building agents for complex, multi-step tasks, including tool design, long-context management, evaluations, and failure analysis.
- Strong software engineering experience building reliable systems others depend on.
- High agency in unfamiliar domains, product sense, design taste, and attention to detail.
Nice to have
- Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing.
- Infrastructure, data engineering, DevOps, fine-tuning, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, or startup experience.
Pay
$150K – $400K+ USD base salary
Tools
LLM agents, MCP, simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers
AI focus
Build agentic harnesses, tools, and operating systems for long-running engineering work; develop LLM agents, execution environments, and evaluations for hardware workflows.
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