AI foundation models and agentic tooling for semiconductor chip design
Cognichip builds AI for chip design, and its stack pairs agent frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI) with hardware tooling like SystemVerilog, UVM, Verilator, Vivado and Quartus, a sign that LLM agents are being wired directly into RTL and verification flows. Hiring is heavily engineering-weighted and skews staff-level and above, with verification bottlenecks and AI-generated test artifacts recurring across job posts.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Software Engineering
Cognichip is a privately held company founded in 2024 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It develops a physics-informed foundation model aimed at making semiconductor design faster, cheaper and more accessible. The company employs 51–200 people and hires in the United States and Canada. Its engineering work spans chip design methodologies, verification environments, simulation infrastructure and the internal platforms that support them, alongside smaller marketing, sales, data and product functions.
Cognichip uses Python, TypeScript, C++, React and AWS, agent frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen and CrewAI, and hardware tools including SystemVerilog, UVM, Verilator, Vivado and Quartus.
Cognichip is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and hires in the United States and Canada.
Cognichip is building agentic workflows for chip design and verification, synthetic verification code generation, simulation infrastructure for AI-generated artifacts, and AI-consumable knowledge bases.
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