Senior Principal Applied ML Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Principal Applied ML Engineer (AI): Designing and implementing AI agents to enhance productivity across the semiconductor design lifecycle with an accent on agent infrastructure, evaluation systems, and production-grade AI capabilities. Focus on building reliable agentic systems, optimizing RAG pipelines, and integrating autonomous AI platforms within the EDA ecosystem.

Location: San Jose, California

Salary: $154,000 – $286,000

Company

Leading provider of design automation tools for electronic and intelligent systems design.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure for AI agents within the ChipStack SuperAgent ecosystem.
• Build robust evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and alignment with engineering workflows.
• Develop data pipelines, retrieval systems, and context-engineering strategies to support grounded agent behavior.
• Contribute to CI/CD, automated testing, and observability systems to ensure production-quality deployment.
• Optimize system performance across latency, cost, reliability, and scalability dimensions.

Requirements

• Education and Experience: BS + 10 years, MS + 7 years, or PhD + 5 years of experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in designing and testing complex distributed systems.
• Practical understanding of LLM deployment considerations including latency, cost, reliability, and monitoring.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for AI systems, including benchmarking and failure analysis.
• Must be based in or able to work onsite in San Jose, CA.

Nice to have

• Experience with agent architecture (reason–act loops, planning, tool/function calling, persistent memory).
• Familiarity with RAG pipelines, embeddings, indexing strategies, and grounding techniques.
• Experience building logging, tracing, and monitoring systems for ML/AI applications.
• Interest in semiconductor design, EDA workflows, and high-performance computing.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Financial perks: 401(k) plan with employer match and employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid vacation and paid holidays.
• Innovative and collaborative culture focused on challenging industry norms and high-quality shipping.