Software Engineer, Silicon Design Methodology

Overview

Software Engineer for silicon design methodology, building reusable design tools and workflows that help enable rapid, high-confidence development of complex custom chips.

What you'll do

• Develop and scale design methodologies for rapid first-party chip development.
• Create abstractions to represent hardware structures, configurations, experiments, and results consistently across tools.
• Automate engineering workflows to improve reproducibility, observability, testability, and ease of use.
• Partner with architects, RTL designers, verification, compiler, and systems software engineers to gather requirements and implement solutions.
• Use methodology and tooling to identify design risks early and improve confidence in performance/implementation tradeoffs.
• Contribute across software and hardware development as the silicon program and methodology evolve.

What you'll need

• Strong software engineering skills in C++, Python, Rust, or similar systems-oriented languages.
• Experience building engineering infrastructure, developer tools, simulation frameworks, EDA/CAD tooling, compilers, or verification systems.
• Understanding of digital design and computer architecture to translate needs into software abstractions.
• Experience integrating RTL and IP components into an SoC.
• Experience designing APIs, object models, or data models for complex systems with extensibility, correctness, and usability in mind.
• Comfort automating multi-stage workflows and building regression systems to improve reproducibility across teams.
• Ability to reason across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and software boundaries.
• Enjoy close partnership with domain experts and turning loosely defined needs into durable tools and methodologies.

Details

• May require meeting certain legal status requirements due to U.S. export control laws and regulations.