What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Chip Engineer - Agentic Workflows position at Cognichip?
Design agentic workflows, prompts, and domain knowledge that enable AI agents to perform production-quality chip design and verification. This role focuses on encoding deep silicon expertise - microarchitecture, RTL, DV, and EDA workflows - into structured agent behaviors, playbooks, and tool-aware processes.
Key Responsibilities: Domain Knowledge & Tool Enablement
outputs, and success criteria, including hierarchical and iterative patterns. Prompt Engineering & Agent Behavior
Key Responsibilities: Domain Knowledge & Tool Enablement
- Encode chip-design expertise (RTL/DV best practices, microarchitectural patterns, failure modes) into reusable, agent-consumable knowledge and playbooks.
- Define EDA tool usage for agents—when to run simulation, lint, CDC, synthesis, and STA, how to interpret results, and how to chain tools into reliable flows. Agent Workflow & Orchestration
- Design end-to-end agent workflows for chip design, verification, debugging, and iterative refinement using structured process graphs.
- Decompose complex silicon workflows into executable agent steps with clear inputs,
outputs, and success criteria, including hierarchical and iterative patterns. Prompt Engineering & Agent Behavior
- Develop high-quality prompts covering specification, microarchitecture, RTL, verification, and debug.
- Define agent behavior models, guardrails, and few-shot examples that guide reasoning, assumption validation, and error handling in chip-design tasks
Salary : $195,000 - $230,000