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Agentrys
Agentic Design Automation for chip engineering
Last verified August 28, 2026 · Updated daily
What Agentrys is building
Agentrys is building what it calls Agentic Design Automation, or ADA. The distinction it draws against forty years of EDA is precise: traditional tools automate an isolated algorithm inside a step, while ADA automates the workflow around the steps. The agents read specifications, generate RTL and scripts, write assertions and testbenches, run the commercial EDA tools already in the flow, and debug what comes back. The product is Agentrys Studio, and its organizing idea is ownership. The pitch on the company's own site is blunt: the agents should be yours. They run behind your firewall, learn from your designs, and improve with every validated round. The framework is three moves: onboard existing workflows and tools on-premises, evolve multi-agent systems that adapt to your design patterns, then scale the proven agents across the org through a registry. It is deliberately open so customers can wire agents across commercial EDA tools, internal tools, and their own infrastructure. The evidence is unusually concrete for a company this young. On NVIDIA's CVDP benchmark, Agentrys reports roughly 90% on testbench stimulus generation and roughly 95% on both checker generation and assertion creation. Separately, the platform took a 32-bit CPU from specification all the way to a sign-off-clean GDS layout with no human in the loop. Functional verification and physical implementation are where it is strongest today; RTL design, analog, and system design are on the roadmap. Customers already include several top fabless semiconductor companies, a leading global foundry, and a set of chip startups. ADA was introduced publicly at DAC 2026.
Why this matters
Verification is where chip schedules die, and it is the part of the flow that has resisted automation hardest because it is judgment-shaped rather than algorithm-shaped. That is exactly the seam ADA is cutting into, and the CVDP numbers matter because CVDP is NVIDIA's own benchmark, not a metric Agentrys invented for a launch post. Roughly 95% on assertion and checker generation is not a demo; it is a claim you can be held to by the same engineers who would have to use it. The spec-to-GDS run on a 32-bit CPU is the more interesting proof. It is a small design by production standards, and Agentrys is not claiming otherwise, but it is the first time the full loop closed without a human stepping in, and closing the loop at all is the thing that changes what the roadmap can promise. Mark Ren built ChipNeMo at NVIDIA, the first industrial LLM for chip design, so the sequence here is legible: he shipped the model layer inside a big company, then left to build the workflow layer outside one. MediaTek leading the pre-seed as first strategic backer is the tell. A fabless chipmaker writing the first check is not a financial position; it is a design partner deciding it wants this to exist.
Open roles at Agentrys
4 positions we're tracking. Roles are re-checked daily and removed when filled.
Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design (San Jose / Austin / Taiwan, on-site)
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AI Engineer, Model Training, Inference & Infra (San Jose / Austin / Taiwan, on-site)
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Infra Engineer, Cloud & AI Agent Platform (San Jose / Austin / Taiwan, on-site)
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Solutions Engineer, AI for Chip Design (San Jose or Hsinchu, Taiwan)
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The strongest possible signal. Four roles are live on agentrys.ai/careers right now, the round was explicitly allocated to recruiting first, and the company just opened three sites (San Jose, Austin, Hsinchu) it needs to staff.
Working at Agentrys
Agentrys is Agentic Design Automation for chip engineering, founded in and now people. At this stage, expect opportunity to shape your role based on the company stage.
San Jose, USA is where most Agentrys positions are located.
How to actually get hired at Agentrys
Why applying the normal way doesn't work
Agentrys has an ATS but the real pipeline is referrals → sourced → recruiter picks → cold apps. You can still get through, but know where you stand.
Who to contact at Agentrys
What to show them
Take an open RTL design (a RISC-V core from OpenTitan or PULP works) and build an agent that generates SystemVerilog assertions for one tricky module, then measure it honestly against a formal tool: how many assertions were vacuous, how many were redundant, how many caught a bug you seeded. Publish the failure taxonomy, not the success rate. The interesting artifact is the list of the ways your agent wrote confident nonsense, because that is the problem Agentrys is actually paid to solve.
A cold email that works at Agentrys
What Agentrys screens for
MediaTek wrote the first check and Etna Labs led the seed, which reads as customer-pull rather than thesis-pull: this round is being underwritten by people who ship silicon. Every role is on-site, in San Jose, Austin or Hsinchu, which tells you the team believes this work requires sitting next to design engineers rather than reasoning about them. The window is the awkward, valuable one: real customers including a global foundry are already engaged, but the team is small enough that the person who joins now defines how the agent registry and the evaluation loop actually work. If you have EDA scars and can write model-training or infra code, there is not a cleaner arbitrage on the board this month.
Tailor your CV to the specific Agentrys role rather than sending a general one. Applications that mirror the language of the job description clear automated filters at a materially higher rate.
Don't make these mistakes
Mark is an IEEE Fellow with 26 years at IBM Research and NVIDIA Research, two DAC Best Paper Awards, and keynotes delivered for Cadence, Synopsys, TSMC and Intel. He led ChipNeMo. Telling him agentic AI is going to transform chip design is telling him about his own paper. Skip the LLM enthusiasm entirely and skip the framing that AI is coming for EDA. Do not pitch a cloud-hosted, API-first architecture either: the company's whole premise is that the agents run behind the customer's firewall on the customer's designs, and a candidate who missed that missed the product. Bring a specific verification failure instead, ideally one where the testbench was the thing that lied to you.
Mistakes that kill Agentrys applications
Don't send the same CV you sent everywhere else. At people it's obvious, and it's the fastest rejection there is.
Nobody cares what you want. Start with Verification is where chip schedules die, and it is the part of the flow that has resisted automation hardest because it is judgment-shaped rather than algorithm-shaped and how you'd help.
Most AI applications get ghosted. A day-five follow-up can double your response rate.
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The Agentrys interview process
4 stages · 14 days typical · take-home: yes · modelled from similar companies
We don't yet have verified candidate reports for Agentrys. What follows is the typical process for a -person AI company — treat it as a model, not confirmed detail.
Interview stages
Recruiter Screen
Phone or video · 30 min
Basic qualification and logistics
Recruiter or HR
Hiring Manager Interview
Video call · 45 min
Role fit and experience deep-dive
Hiring manager
Technical/Functional Round
Video call · 60 min
Skills assessment and problem-solving
Team members
Final Round
In-person or video · 60 min
Culture fit and cross-functional alignment
Senior leadership
Agentrys take-home assignment
Agentrys includes a take-home exercise in their interview process. For AI roles, this typically involves a practical problem that takes 2-4 hours. Focus on clean, working code over premature optimization. They're evaluating how you think and communicate, not just the solution.
Agentrys interview timeline
Agentrys runs about days from first contact to offer. The median for AI companies at people is 14 days, so Agentrys is about average than most.
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How many jobs does Agentrys have open?
We're tracking 4 active openings at Agentrys (verified August 2026).
Does Agentrys hire remotely?
Currently, Agentrys only has in-office roles in San Jose, USA.
What roles is Agentrys hiring for?
Agentrys is hiring across Engineering. The most recent opening is Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design (San Jose / Austin / Taiwan, on-site).
How do I apply for a job at Agentrys?
Click through to apply, or see our detailed guide on landing a job at Agentrys.
Does Agentrys respond to cold emails?
We haven't verified response rates at Agentrys yet.
Who is the hiring manager at Agentrys?
At this size, hiring is usually run by the hiring manager.
How competitive is it to get hired at Agentrys?
Roles at -person AI companies typically draw 100-250 applicants in the first two weeks. Applying inside 72 hours of a posting going live is the single biggest lever you control.
How many rounds is the Agentrys interview?
4 stages: Recruiter Screen, Hiring Manager Interview, Technical/Functional Round, Final Round.
Is the Agentrys interview hard?
The interview emphasizes technical depth and system design over abstract problems. Hardest stage: Technical Interview.
Does Agentrys give a take-home task?
Yes, Agentrys includes a take-home assignment.
How long does Agentrys take to get back to you?
Around 14 days across the full process.
What should I prepare for the Agentrys interview?
Study technical depth and system design. At this size (), they care about self-sufficiency over textbook knowledge.
Where is Agentrys based?
Agentrys is headquartered in San Jose, USA.
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A role stays uncontested for about four days. Here's the window — and where we put you in it.
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Watching Agentrys
0 applicantsRole spotted & verified
1You get the alert
1You've applied
~8Hits the job boards
250+