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LLM Modeling and Scaling Researcher

Ricursive Intelligence logoRicursive Intelligence
AI-native
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
LocationPalo Alto, CA
Posted1/19/2026
Research

Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence. Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVIDIA Ventures, we are a growing, fast-paced team where every hire shapes the work.

The company has unmatched talent density, including IMO, IPhO, and IOAA gold medalists, pioneers who made prior breakthroughs in chip design: AlphaChip (Nature 2021), ePlace (DAC Best Paper Nominee 2014), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), INSTA (DAC Best Paper 2025), and C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), chip leads for Apple Silicon (multiple generations of iPhone and iPad) and Google (TPU, OpenTitan), and top researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, and MIT.

We are hiring best-in-class researchers to conduct novel AI research, work on a variety of challenges related to LLM modeling, training, data, evaluation, and more. As a startup, everyone is hands-on - our researchers design and run experiments at scale, and build/deploy models in production.

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Ricursive Intelligence

Superintelligence through Silicon

A frontier AI lab enabling a recursive self-improvement loop between AI and the chips that fuel it.

Private companySeries AMega roundIn the newsBrand new
Founded2025
Size2-10 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Funding
  • Series A · $300M · Jan 26, 2026
Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners
News
  • Ricursive launches Ripple-65B Preview, its first dense open-weight LLM
  • Ricursive Intelligence’s Ripple-65B Preview claims coding lead among US open models

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