Software Engineer, Silicon Design Methodology

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale design methodologies for rapid first-party chip development and apply them to construct complex custom chips.
• Create abstractions for representing hardware structures, configurations, experiments, and results consistently across tools.
• Automate engineering workflows and improve their reproducibility, observability, testability, and usability.
• Partner with architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, compiler engineers, and systems software engineers to gather requirements and implement solutions.
• Identify design risks early and accelerate iteration using methodology and tooling.
• Improve confidence in performance and implementation tradeoffs.
• Contribute across software and hardware development as the silicon program and development methodology evolve.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience integrating RTL and IP components into an SoC.
• Experience designing APIs, object models, or data models for complex systems.
• Ability to automate multi-stage workflows, build regression systems, and improve reproducibility.
• Ability to reason across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and software boundaries.
• Ability to collaborate with domain experts and translate loosely defined needs into durable tools and methodologies.

Compensation

• Annual salary range: $225,000–$380,000.