
Cognichip is an AI-first company revolutionizing semiconductor design with its Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI)® platform. ACI® is the world's first physics-informed foundation AI model tailored…

Cognichip is an AI-first company revolutionizing semiconductor design with its Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI)® platform. ACI® is the world's first physics-informed foundation AI model tailored…
Founded: 2024
Mission: Use AI (ACI®) to radically speed and reduce effort in chip design
Total disclosed funding: $93M
Recent round: $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures (Apr 1, 2026)
Headcount (reported): 73
Semiconductor chip design automation and optimization using generative and physics-informed AI.
2024
DeepTech
$33M
Emergence from stealth with $33M seed
$60M
Participation from Lip-Bu Tan; Umesh Padval (Seligman) and Lip-Bu Tan join board
“Includes venture firms with domain-focused deep-tech investors and participation from industry executive Lip-Bu Tan”
Job Summary:
We are seeking an AI Engineer to design, implement, and deploy advanced agentic AI systems.
In this role, you’ll build production-ready AI agents that can reason across multiple steps,
leverage a mixture of proprietary models, integrate with semiconductor design tools, and
operate autonomously over a long period of time.
Key Responsibilities:
● Build Agentic Systems – Implement multi-step reasoning agents with advanced
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memory, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and integrations to tools, databases,
and APIs.
● Evaluate and Optimize Agent Performance – Define and implement evaluation
pipelines for agentic systems, including success/failure classification, grounding
accuracy, reasoning robustness, tool-use reliability, and long-horizon task completion.
Use metrics and benchmarks to continuously improve performance in production
environments.
● Orchestrate & Optimize – Design supervisor/sub-agent patterns, enable coordination
across agents, and apply best practices for robustness, performance, and scalability.
● Deploy & Evolve – Deliver production-grade agentic AI workflows on cloud platforms
(AWS preferred), monitor and evaluate agent performance, and continuously fine-tune
for quality and efficiency.
● Collaborate & Translate – Work with product managers, researchers, and engineers to
transform complex chip design workflows into agent-driven, end-to-end solutions.
Desired Skillset
● Agentic AI Systems
○ Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration and supervisor patterns.
○ Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, or similar frameworks.
○ Knowledge of RAG pipelines, memory management, and evaluation of agent
performance.
● Evaluation and Optimization
○ Familiarity with agent evaluation frameworks (e.g., LangSmith evals, benchmark
datasets, unit tests for agent workflows).
○ Experience designing custom evaluation metrics for reasoning steps, tool use
correctness, and RAG pipeline performance.
○ Ability to balance automatic evaluation (synthetic benchmarks, self-play) with
human-in-the-loop evaluation for complex workflows.
● Cloud & Infrastructure
○ Strong software engineering foundation with experience in cloud environments
(AWS preferred).
○ Knowledge of containerized deployment and backend integration.
● Programming & Development
○ Proficiency in Python; experience with backend systems and API integration.
○ Familiarity with modern software engineering practices (GitHub, CI/CD pipelines,
testing frameworks).
Required Qualifications:
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related
field.
● 5-10 years of experience in software development in cloud environment
● 2+ years of experience with hands-on experience building and deploying production-
grade agentic AI systems with real-world applications.
● Solid working knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent performance
evaluation, and hands-on experience with LangGraph and LangSmith platforms.
● Proficiency in Python and familiarity with backend cloud services (preferably AWS).
Preferred Qualifications
● Contributions to open-source AI projects or frameworks.
● Experience with multi-agent orchestration patterns at scale.
● Knowledge of reinforcement learning, planning algorithms, or autonomous reasoning.
● Track record of deploying agentic AI systems in production at scale