Rust Software Engineering Intern, Chip Design Tools - Summer - Austin, United States
$114,000 - $131,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 September 2026 by the employer.
Work on Studio, a browser-based, multiplayer platform for designing and assembling whole chips.
About the role
This role involves fullstack software engineering, focusing on the application itself, with an emphasis on owning major features from design through shipping across the entire stack. You will contribute to Studio, a platform for designing and assembling chips that handles schematic capture, physical layout, and simulation.
What you'll do
- Own major features from design through shipping, touching the whole stack
- Develop deeply interactive, low-latency editing tools for chip design
- Implement a document model supporting diffing, merging, and real-time collaboration
- Design and build a sync engine for streaming edits between clients
- Optimize a GPU canvas to render millions of polygons smoothly using Rust
- Create simulation features that stream waveforms and provide interactive analysis
What you'll need
- Strong Rust experience, or serious C++/systems experience with a curiosity for Rust
- Solid systems fundamentals, including memory, performance, and concurrency
- Track record of building non-trivial software from scratch
- A portfolio (GitHub is acceptable)
Nice to have
- Experience with game, engine, or real-time systems (ECS, scene graphs, spatial indexing, physics engines, frame budgets, GUI, low-latency input)
- Background in Electrical Engineering, analog and digital
- Experience with deep, serious software like Blender, Ableton, KiCad, CAD tools, DAWs, game engines
- Familiarity with distributed or real-time systems (write-ahead logs, event sourcing, replication, CRDTs, OT, websockets, data pipelines)
- Knowledge of geometry, graph, and routing algorithms; spatial data structures; optimization
- Familiarity with schema evolution and serialization formats (Protobuf, Flatbuffers, Cap’n Proto)
- Experience with graphics and visualization, custom rendering, shaders, GPU pipelines (WebGPU, Vulkan, OpenGL)
- Interest in version control internals, beyond just using Git
Skills: chip design tools, fullstack, Rust, WebAssembly, CAD tools
This role has been open 39 days — well below the 78-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
688
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
$195k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Atomic Semi | All employers we track in this specialty (688 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 688 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 2 | 1469 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 44 d | 78 d (−34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: chip design tools, fullstack, Rust, WebAssembly, CAD tools
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 153 open roles · median 168 d
- Synopsys · 65 open roles · median 38 d
- Micron Technology · 44 open roles · median 80 d
- Qualcomm · 41 open roles · median 66 d
- NVIDIA · 39 open roles · median 79 d
- GlobalFoundries · 33 open roles · median 35 d
How we counted: 688 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.