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Chip/Software Engineer

Silimate logoSilimateYC S23
AI-native
TypeFull-time
SponsorshipSponsors visas
Salary$140,000–$220,000
LocationMountain View, CA
Engineering

We’re looking for an engineer with significant experience with the VLSI front-end design flow and strong coding skills to help us build/scale AI-native EDA tools and agent-driven 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:

  • Write code (Python/C++) that ships to Fortune enterprises and chip unicorns
  • Make software architectural decisions for key product features
  • Translate user feedback into product updates/features
  • Plan core product roadmap and strategy

Minimum requirements:

  • Passionate and excited about chips and AI for EDA
  • Experienced with designing ASICs using SystemVerilog and synthesis/verification tools (open-source and/or commercial)
  • Experienced with common front-end EDA tools
  • Good at writing/shipping high-quality code (Python/C++) quickly
  • Basic knowledge of statistics & AI/ML methods
  • Resilient, data-driven, and works from first principles

Ideal requirements:

  • 1+ tapeouts (ideally on advanced technology nodes)
  • Contributor to open-source EDA/chip efforts
  • Significant experience with PPA optimization and/or functional correctness convergence

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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