Chip/Software Engineer

at Silimate — The copilot for chip designers

Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, USFull-time1+ years$140K - $220K0.50% - 2.00% equityYC-S23

What the role involves

We’re looking for a key engineer with significant experience with the VLSI front-end design flow and strong coding skills to help us build/scale chip AI models and agent-driven 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:
  • Write code (Python/C++) that ships to Fortune 500s 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
  • Apply to chat with the founders about the details!

About Silimate

We're building AI-native core tools & agent-driven workflows for frontend chip design. Today, Silimate is helping Fortune 500s and chip unicorns create & iterate to correct, optimized designs 40x faster. Our goal is to enable autonomous spec-to-design for silicon.

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