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EDA software · chip design automation

ML Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area · Onsite$140k–$220k/yrPosted 7 days ago
Machine learningUnspecifiedFull TimeSponsorship mentioned
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We’re looking for a key engineer with significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build AI-native core tools and models for agent-driven chip design workflows.

Who you are

You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire chip industry.

You are resourceful, a self-starter, and care intensely about the quality of your work.

You want to work at a scrappy startup that sets and meets aggressive goals.

You want to own/drive core product and write/ship code every day.

You want to work with our customers/users and translate their feedback into company/product direction.

If this sounds like you, please apply to join the team!

What you’ll do

  • Develop AI models, core tools, and infrastructure that ship to Fortune 500s and chip unicorns

  • Make architectural decisions for key product features

  • Translate user feedback into product updates/features

  • Plan core product roadmap and strategy

  • Minimum requirements:

  • Highly skilled with Python, C++, PyTorch/torch

  • Strong understanding of traditional ML models, LLMs, foundation models, and agents

  • Experience building ML pipelines

  • Experience fine-tuning and benchmarking LLMs/foundation models

  • Excited about applying AI/ML techniques to chip design

  • Good at shipping high-quality code quickly

  • Resilient, data-driven, and works from first principles

  • Ideal requirements:

  • Have shipped product using LLMs, foundation models, and/or agentic workflows

  • Experience with AWS SageMaker

  • Nice-to-have requirements:

  • Experience with AI/ML-driven chip EDA software tooling (either open-source or commercial tools)

  • Experience with designing chips (either open-source or commercial designs)

Benefits

  • Generous salary and equity package

  • Full health/vision/dental/401k benefits

  • Team meals

  • Apply to chat with the founders about the details!

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