
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
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- 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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