Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Title

Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Summary

The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds with customer design and verification teams at large semiconductor companies to identify real problems in RTL development and verification and deliver working software solutions.

You will collaborate with internal R&D, customer domain experts, and customer engineering teams to build integrations and features that connect ChipAgents to customer design flows.

Experience Level

Mid-level (no specific years of experience stated).

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include on-site customer engagement, solution delivery, and technical integration with semiconductor design flows.

• Embed on-site or near-site with customer design and verification teams to co-develop solutions.
• Own the customer relationship end-to-end: problem definition, development, delivery, and handoff.
• Translate field problems in RTL development and verification into shipped software capabilities.
• Collaborate with R&D, domain experts, and customer champions to prioritize and implement features.
• Write code to integrate ChipAgents with RTL, testbenches, simulators, and verification environments.
• Operate effectively under ambiguous requirements and deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
• Travel frequently to customer sites as required.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; followed by concise list of nice-to-have skills.

• Hands-on experience in chip design or design verification at a semiconductor, EDA, or hardware company.
• Working knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, and RTL; familiarity with testbenches, simulation, and debug.
• Strong software engineering skills; Python required. Comfortable building integrations and automation.
• Experience using AI agents, especially coding agents, and an interest in AI-native development workflows.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to work directly with customer engineers and managers.
• Ability to work independently in customer environments and ship solutions without a fixed spec.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with UVM, formal verification, or commercial EDA tools.
• Experience customizing AI agents or building agent-driven tooling.
• Prior forward-deployed, solutions, applications, or field engineering experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Experience with scripting and automation around design flows (Python, Tcl, Makefiles).
• Experience standing up secure customer environments and managing data access.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (as stated).

About the Company

Company: ChipAgents

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States

ChipAgents is a Series A startup developing agentic AI workflows for chip design and verification, leveraging generative AI and large language models to assist RTL design, simulation, and EDA workflows for semiconductor and cloud customers.