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Founded by experts in AI and semiconductor design, we partner with top-10 semiconductor companies, hyperscale cloud providers, and cutting-edge startups. Our platform accelerates RTL development, functional verification, and simulation, unlocking new levels of productivity and design quality.\nRole Overview\nWe are looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer to own and drive the product experience across ChipAgents. This is an engineering role for someone with exceptional product judgment and strong opinions about how technical software should work. You will identify user problems, define workflows and interaction models, and ensure that the final experience is coherent, intuitive, and effective.\nThis role designs experiences across CLI, web, IDE, desktop, and other agent-native interfaces, not simply implementing designs or requirements created by someone else. It involves working directly with users, engineers, AI researchers, and company leadership to shape the product from problem definition through launch and iteration. While you may implement major parts of the experience yourself, your responsibility extends beyond the code you personally write.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the product experience across CLI, web, IDE, desktop, and other agent-native interfaces.\n\nTranslate complex chip design and verification workflows into clear, efficient product experiences.\n\nDefine how users interact with AI agents, including task creation, progress, review, approval, interruption, recovery, and failure handling.\n\nWork directly with customers and domain experts to understand their workflows and identify the right problems to solve.\n\nDevelop prototypes and production interfaces when code is the fastest way to explore and validate an idea.\n\nReview and influence product work across the engineering team to maintain a consistently high quality bar.\n\nQualifications\nStrong experience building and shipping user-facing software.\n\nExcellent frontend or product engineering skills.\n\nExceptional product, interaction design, and information architecture judgment.\n\nComfort making decisions under ambiguity and driving alignment without formal authority.\n\nThe ability to reason through complete workflows, including edge cases and failure states.\n\nExperience working directly with users and translating technical needs into product decisions.\n\nThe ability and desire to quickly learn unfamiliar technical domains.\n\nNice to Haves\nExperience building AI-native products, agents, copilots, or systems with probabilistic behavior.\n\nExperience with developer tools, command-line products, IDE integrations, or technical enterprise software.\n\nFamiliarity with semiconductor design, verification, EDA tooling, or hardware engineering workflows.\n\nExperience designing products across multiple interfaces rather than a single web application.\n\nHow We Think About This Role\nThis is not a traditional product design role centered on producing mockups or Figma files. 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