ML 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 AI/ML + LLM experience to build AI-native core tools and models for agent-driven chip design 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:
  • Develop AI models, core tools, and infrastructure that ship to Fortune 500s 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
  • 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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