Software Engineer — AI-Native CAD Integrations

Job Overview

About Quilter At Quilter, we are helping electrical engineers save time and accomplish more by automating the tedious and time-consuming task of designing printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Our small team is composed of experts in electrical engineering, electromagnetic simulation, ML/AI, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Job Description

We are inventing and leveraging novel techniques to solve the decades-old problem of automating circuit board design where today hundreds of billions of dollars are spent.

We have raised $25 million in Series B funding from some of the very best and are charging full-speed toward our goal.

You'll work primarily in our Python File I/O codebase: parsing, translating, and generating complex (and often undocumented) CAD formats, and mapping them into Quilter's internal "board" model.

This is a genuinely AI-native team-and we'll make you dangerous with it. A lot of companies say "we use AI.

" Here, we will pay for you to master it: Build your own agent harnesses for the kind of reverse-engineering we do-parsing undocumented binary formats, mapping vendor schemas, automating the tedious parts of integration work.

Run real model evals on our actual problems-not vibes or Twitter threads. Develop genuine craft in prompting, context engineering, and MCP server design-skills that compound over your whole career. Operate with the leverage of a team of ten.

Key Responsibilities

• No matter where we come from, we're united by a common vision for the future and a core set of values we think will get us there: Focus on the mission Build great things that help humans Demonstrate grit Never stop learning Pursue excellence Quilter's File I/O team builds the bridges between Quilter and the world's leading PCB CAD tools-Altium, Cadence Allegro, and Siemens Xpedition.
• A lot of companies say "we use AI." Here, we will pay for you to master it: Build your own agent harnesses for the kind of reverse-engineering we do-parsing undocumented binary formats, mapping vendor schemas, automating the tedious parts of integration work.
• What You'll Do Build and extend integrations with CAD vendors' file formats and scripting systems.
• Reverse-engineer proprietary binary and text-based formats, with support from senior engineers.
• Help shape Quilter's internal PCB representation as we expand support for new tools.
• Use-and help build-the next generation of agent-powered workflows for CAD reverse engineering.
• Experience building tooling around coding agents (evals, harnesses, MCP servers, etc.).

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Develop genuine craft in prompting, context engineering, and MCP server design-skills that compound over your whole career.
• What We're Looking For 3-7 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful backend or systems work.
• General knowledge of binary formats.
• Nice to Have (genuinely nice-to-have - none of these are required, and we don't expect any one candidate to have most of them) A little C or C++ - not required at all, but occasionally helpful for skimming vendor SDKs or binary formats.
• Experience with binary or large-scale serialization formats (protobuf, custom binary, XML, JSON).
• Experience building tooling around coding agents (evals, harnesses, MCP servers, etc.).

Benefits and Perks

• What we offer: Interesting and challenging work Competitive salary and equity benefits Health, dental, and vision insurance Regular team events and offsites (~4x / year) Unlimited paid time off Paid parental leave Want to learn more about Quilter, our vision, and our investors?

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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