Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Silicon Engineering Platform

Overview

You will build and own the application-layer orchestration for a modern silicon engineering platform. You’ll transform monolithic pipelines into small, reusable building blocks with strong observability and robust failure handling. The role centers on scalable, data-driven workflow orchestration, integrating with deployment, security, and networking, while maintaining high code quality. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to enable predictable, end-to-end execution and product-like developer tooling. This is a chance to shape the architecture of a high-impact platform used to accelerate silicon and software IP delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement orchestration logic using a modern workflow engine, decomposing pipelines into reusable units
• Apply SOLID and separation-of-concerns principles to keep code maintainable
• Define strongly-typed data contracts between pipeline stages (e.g., Pydantic)
• Design retry, checkpoint, and resume mechanisms for long-running jobs
• Implement human-in-the-loop patterns for review and rerouting
• Write thorough automated tests (unit, integration)
• Build observability into the application layer (structured logging, metrics, status reporting)
• Collaborate with infrastructure lead to consume secrets and env config via clean interfaces
• Participate in code reviews to promote readability and pragmatic simplicity
• Contribute to technical documentation and onboarding materials

Key requirements

• Strong command of Python (preferred) or equivalent strongly-typed language
• Understanding of SOLID, OOP, and composition-based architecture
• Ability to write testable code with dependency injection and mocking
• Experience building composable software with small, well-scoped modules
• Comfort with asynchronous programming (e.g., Python asyncio)
• Experience designing data models/schemas and using type checking
• Solid error handling and failure-mode design (retries, idempotency)
• Familiarity with Git, CI/Pipelines, and pytest
• Experience Linux environments and safe use of CLI/subprocesses

• Excellent communicator and collaborator
• Curious, solutions-oriented problem solver
• Customer and stakeholder-focused
• Python (strong typing)
• SOLID and OOP design, composition-based architecture
• Dependency injection and mocking

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