Chip Design Researcher

Job Summary

To support cutting-edge research in semiconductor design, the full-time Chip Design Researcher will build agents, environments, and evaluations for reinforcement learning workflows, collaborating with domain experts and utilizing EDA tools in a remote or flexible work environment.

Key responsibilities

• Develop interactive verification environments for agents to modify designs and debug failures
• Create reward systems that balance functional correctness with performance and efficiency constraints
• Conduct experiments on credit assignment and evaluate agent performance across various design scenarios

Required qualifications

• Strong expertise in reinforcement learning, agents, or post-training systems
• Experience in design automation, compilers, or formal methods is advantageous
• Hands-on skills in building and debugging model-training and evaluation loops
• Proficiency in Python and ability to create shareable artifacts for research use
• Demonstrated ability to tackle ambiguous problems and communicate progress effectively