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Applied AI Engineer

Silimate logoSilimate (YC S23)YC S23
AI-native
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
Salary$140,000–$220,000
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Posted8/4/2026
Engineering

We’re looking for an engineer with significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build AI-native core tools and agents for frontend chip design workflows.

Who you are:

You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the semiconductor 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 enterprises 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

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Company info

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Silimate

Fast, efficient agents for chip design and debug

Pre-seedYC S23AI-product
HQMountain View, United States
Size1–10 employees
Industry
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Software Development
Funding
  • Pre-seed · Jul 1, 2023
Tech stacknodejs, visual-studio-code, amazon-web-services, yc, unicorns, benchmark, microsoft-typescript, pytest, amazon-sagemaker, python

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