Senior Product Design Engineer - San Jose, United States
$180,000 - $350,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 August 2026 by the employer.
Design CLI, web, IDE, and agent-native interfaces for chip design and functional verification workflows.
About the role
As a Senior Product Design Engineer at ChipAgents, you will own and drive the product experience across CLI, web, IDE, desktop, and other agent-native interfaces. The work centers on translating chip design, RTL development, and functional verification workflows into coherent technical software interactions.
What you'll do
- Own the product experience across CLI, web, IDE, desktop, and agent-native interfaces. - Translate complex chip design and verification workflows into clear, efficient product experiences. - Define how users interact with AI agents, including task creation, progress, review, approval, interruption, recovery, and failure handling. - Work directly with customers and domain experts to understand workflows and identify the core problems to solve. - Develop prototypes and production interfaces using code to explore and validate interaction models. - Review and influence product work across the engineering team to maintain technical and design quality.
What you'll need
- Strong experience building and shipping user-facing software. - Frontend or product engineering skills with the ability to build prototypes and production interfaces. - Demonstrated product judgment, interaction design skills, and information architecture expertise. - Ability to reason through complete workflows, including edge cases and failure states. - Experience working directly with users to translate technical needs into product decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI-native products, agents, copilots, or systems with probabilistic behavior. - Experience with developer tools, command-line products, IDE integrations, or technical enterprise software. - Familiarity with semiconductor design, verification, EDA tooling, or hardware engineering workflows. - Experience designing products across multiple interfaces rather than a single web application.
Skills: CLI, IDE, frontend, interaction design, agent-native interfaces
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 34-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · AI EDA Design
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Open roles in category
66
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Median days open
34 d
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Median salary
$205k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | ChipAgents | All employers we track in this specialty (66 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 66 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 3 | 1513 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 34 d (−34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: CLI, IDE, frontend, interaction design, agent-native interfaces
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 12 open roles · median 74 d
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 32 d
- Keysight Technologies · 7 open roles · median 26 d
- Synopsys · 6 open roles · median 9 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 5 open roles · median 79 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 26 d
How we counted: 66 open EDA/CAD Engineering (AI EDA Design) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 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.