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Founding ML Engineer

Develop key co-pilot features to accelerate chip design processes for customers.
San Francisco Bay Area
Expert
$160,000 – 220,000 USD / year
1 year ago

Founding Engineer For Co-Pilot For Chip Designers

We're looking for a passionate founding engineer that has significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build the co-pilot for chip designers with us.

Who You Are:

You're excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire industry, and enabling new levels of dynamism and speed for the hardware compute ecosystem.

You'll leverage your AI/ML + LLM expertise to develop key co-pilot features that make building chips much faster, easier, and more intuitive.

You'll also work directly with our world-class customers building advanced chips and IP to iterate on our product with user feedback.

We ship product updates on a weekly basis, work in-person together in the Bay Area, and geek out about semiconductor news/technology advances. If this sounds like you, please apply to join the team!

What You'll Do:

  1. Develop AI models/infrastructure that ship to 10+ chip/IP customers
  2. Make architectural decisions for key product features
  3. Translate user feedback into product updates/features
  4. Plan core product roadmap and strategy with the founders

Minimum Requirements:

  • Highly skilled with Python, C++, PyTorch/torch
  • Good 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
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Founding ML Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
$160,000 – 220,000 USD / year
Engineering
About Silimate
The co-pilot for chip designers