# Software Engineer, ML for EDA

Position Overview We are hiring Software Engineers to build the production systems behind our machine learning work in electronic design automation (EDA). Our researchers apply ML to power, performance, and area problems in chip design, and you'll turn that work into reliable software that runs in the ChipAgents platform and inside customer design environments. That means integrating with EDA tools, flows, and compute infrastructure, building the data pipelines and services our models depend on, and making deployments repeatable across customers. You'll work closely with ML researchers, hardware experts, and customer engineering teams. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain the production software that brings our ML research into the ChipAgents platform. Integrate with EDA tools, flow scripts, libraries, and compute infrastructure across a range of design environments. Build data pipelines and tooling that turn EDA tool runs into datasets for training and evaluation. Deploy and support our software in customer environments, including on-premises and restricted-network setups, working with customer engineering teams. Turn repeated integration work into reusable tools, such as d

- **Id**: 3764705
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chipagents-software-engineer-ml-for-eda>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T16:32:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T15:41:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3508
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EDA Software, AI Agents

## Company

- **Id**: 178094
- **Name**: ChipAgents
- **Domain**: chipagents.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chipagents>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 94
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 350000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 350000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **TCL Scripting** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:40:06Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4; Filings 12m: 4; Filings prev 12m: 0; Green card filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 94
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 350000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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