ChipStack · 2 months ago
Research Scientist / Engineer – Agents
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expChipStack is a company focused on innovating chip design in the tech-driven world. The role involves designing and researching agentic systems that integrate AI with chip design workflows, requiring collaboration with engineers and product teams to enhance performance and task completion.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySemiconductor
Responsibilities
Architect and iterate on agentic components: memory, context engineering, tool usage, multi-agent coordination
Experiment with prompting, finetuning, and orchestration to improve agent performance
Build scalable infrastructure for prompt iteration/testing, benchmarking, logging, and evaluation
Assist with pipelines for fine-tuning, automated evaluation, and model deployment
Work directly with chip designers and ML infra engineers to embed agentic workflows into chip design pipelines
Partner with product teams to solve core agent challenges (e.g., long-horizon planning, tool integration)
Define and evaluate performance metrics for agent systems
Design goal-oriented agentic workflows to enhance task completion
Qualification
Required
5+ years of combined ML research and / or software engineering experience
Hands-on with LLMs: prompting, finetuning, evaluation
Strong programming skills
Solid foundations in distributed systems, data pipelines
Cloud + on-premise infra experience involving GPUs. Familiarity with Docker
Excellent communication & a bias toward collaborative problem-solving
PhD or MS in ML, CS, or related field, or equivalent research + implementation experience
Ability to build, evaluate, and iterate LLM-based applications
Preferred
Experience in fine-tuning LLMs specifically for agentic applications
Experience designing agentic systems or multi-agent workflows
Familiarity with reinforcement learning (RLHF/RL-agent contexts)
Background in integrated ML infra and agent evaluation pipelines
Interest or experience in the chip design/EDA domain
Company
ChipStack
Chipstack utilizes generative AI-driven tools to reimagine chip design.
11-50 employees
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Funding
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Khosla Ventures
2025-11-10Acquired
2025-01-01Seed
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