Prime Intellect
Applied Researcher - Chip Design
$300K
San Francisco +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
Remote
London - Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship.
About the job
Build agents, environments, evaluations, and post-training systems for semiconductor design and verification workflows using EDA tools.
What you'll do
- Develop interactive environments and agents for RTL design, debugging, verification, and multi-step EDA workflows.
- Create verifiers, reward signals, and evaluations grounded in tests, simulation, formal methods, and engineering outcomes.
- Run post-training experiments, analyze results and failures, and deploy effective approaches.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation, or closely adjacent experimental loops.
- Strong Python skills.
- Strong experimental judgment, including baseline design, trace inspection, and failure attribution.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems and keep partners and teammates informed.
Pay
$150-300k USD base salary
Tools
Python, RTL, EDA
AI focus
Develop and evaluate long-horizon agents for semiconductor design and verification, including post-training, reward design, tool use, and generalization.
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