Chipagents

Chipagents

Product Line Director, Frontend RCA & Coverage

San Jose · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 days ago
Agentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearchLeadership

About the role

  • This is a customer-facing leadership role: you are the voice of the customer inside the company and the voice of the product in front of the customer.

Responsibilities

  • Own the vertical, problem to purchase order. Drive the full lifecycle from customer problem definition → R&D direction → demo → customer evaluation → sales conversion, working up and down the stack with R&D, AI Engineering, and Sales.
  • Own go-to-market. Shape positioning, pricing input, demo flows, and evaluation success criteria. Support Sales through evals and drive conversion, run demos, follow-ups, and customer pushes yourself when needed.
  • Work cross-functionally. Partner daily with R&D on feasibility and quality bars, with AI/software engineering on agent behavior and product stability, and with Sales on account strategy and scaling from block-level wins to full-SoC deployments.
  • Own the vertical, problem to purchase order.
  • Drive the full lifecycle from customer problem definition → R&D direction → demo → customer evaluation → sales conversion, working up and down the stack with R&D, AI Engineering, and Sales.
  • Define and drive the roadmap.
  • Validate value with customers.
  • Sit with DV leads, verification engineers, and CAD teams at customer sites.

Requirements

  • Proven ability to know the customer: strong existing network among DV and CAD leadership at semiconductor companies, and credibility in technical conversations with senior verification engineers.
  • Experience taking an early-stage ("sort of works") capability to a production-quality product.
  • Prior product management or product line management experience in EDA, semiconductor IP, or AI-for-engineering tools.
  • Familiarity with formal verification and static checks (lint/CDC) as adjacent product surfaces
  • Experience defining eval criteria and success metrics for enterprise pilots.
  • 7+ years in digital design verification, verification methodology, or EDA product roles. Deep familiarity with the front-end verification flow (testbench/UVM, simulation regressions, debug/triage, coverage closure, formal, lint/CDC, GLS).
  • First-hand understanding of verification pain: regression failure triage at scale, root-cause analysis across block and system levels, coverage signoff on large SoCs.
  • Track record of validating product value with customers and converting evaluations into revenue.
  • Strong business judgment: can connect a technical capability to a dollar figure, and prioritize accordingly.
  • Execution and program-management muscle: comfortable driving R&D, engineering, and sales teams to a shared plan.
  • Excellent communication. You'll present to customer VPs and debug priorities with researchers on the same day.
  • You'll be defining the product strategy for a category leader at the intersection of the two most important technology waves of the decade, AI and semiconductors, alongside a world-class technical team and an advisory board of EDA legends. This is a rare opportunity to own the digital front-end verification vertical from the ground up at a company with real product, real customers, and the ambition (and backing) to become a generational outcome.

Compensation

  • $180K/yr – $450K/yr base salary + equity.

Benefits

  • $180K/yr - $450K/yr base salary + equity.
  • Unlimited PTO and full benefits (medical, vision, dental, 401k).
  • Two engineering-centric offices with free parking, private gym, and free lunch, drinks and snacks.

Company info

  • you are the voice of the customer inside the company and the voice of the product in front of the customer.
  • We are building AI agents that transform how semiconductor design gets done.

Equal opportunity

  • ChipAgents is an equal opportunity employer.
  • We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.
  • $180K/yr - $450K/yr base salary + equity. Open to above-scale compensation for exceptional candidates.
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