Sr. Engineer, Silicon Development Infrastructure - Austin, Texas, United States
$100,000 - $500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on silicon development infrastructure, specifically involving RISC-V cores.
About the role
This role involves improving the reliability, performance, and user experience of high-performance computing infrastructure that supports silicon development.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain reliable build, execution, and simulation flows for verification, functional safety, formal analysis, and EDA processes.
- Analyze system performance bottlenecks, workload patterns, and infrastructure execution to optimize throughput and reduce engineer wait times.
- Build resilient, monitored operational services with automated recovery, actionable diagnostics, and feedback loops for CI/CD and repository health.
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to transform recurring hardware and software integration failures into durable system solutions.
What you'll need
- Advanced engineering degree (BS, MS, or PhD in EE, ECE, CS, or related field) with over seven years of industry experience.
- Expertise in Git branch strategies, merge conflict resolution, operational failure debugging, and software engineering repository management practices.
- Practical working knowledge of SQL databases, data query optimization, and modern structured data technologies.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to solve complex technical problems, enhance automated testing, and streamline debugging.
- A systems-oriented engineer driven to unblock technical teams, eliminate developer friction, and elevate overall productivity.
Skills: silicon development infrastructure, EDA, CI/CD, simulation flows, verification workloads
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 82-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
687
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Median days open
82 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 | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (687 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 687 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 13 | 1463 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 35 d | 82 d (−47 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: silicon development infrastructure, EDA, CI/CD, simulation flows, verification workloads
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 157 open roles · median 169 d
- Synopsys · 65 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 42 open roles · median 94 d
- Qualcomm · 41 open roles · median 65 d
- NVIDIA · 40 open roles · median 78 d
- GlobalFoundries · 30 open roles · median 48 d
How we counted: 687 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.