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Silimate (YC S23) This range is provided by Silimate (YC S23). Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$120,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr Were growing the team further! Were looking for a passionate founding engineer who has significant experience with the VLSI front-end design flow and strong coding skills to join our growing team and build the co-pilot for chip designers with us.
Who You Are
Youre excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire industry, and enabling new levels of dynamism and speed for the hardware compute ecosystem.
Youll leverage your understanding of functional correctness and PPA optimization in RTL design to develop key co-pilot features that make building chips much faster, easier, and more intuitive.
Youll also work directly with our world-class customers building advanced chips and IP to iterate quickly on our product with user feedback.
We ship product updates on a weekly basis, work in-person together in the Bay Area, and geek out about semiconductor news/technology advances. If this sounds like you, please apply to join the team!
What Youll Do
Write code (Python/C++) that ships to Silimates 10+ chip/IP customers Make software architectural decisions for key product features Translate user feedback directly into product updates/features Plan core product roadmap and strategy with the founders
Minimum Requirements
Passionate and excited about chips and AI for EDA Have experience designing ASICs using SystemVerilog and synthesis/verification tools (open-source and/or commercial) 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 Seniority level
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Founding Chip/Software Engineer
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Silimate (YC S23) Join to apply for the
Founding Chip/Software Engineer
role at
Silimate (YC S23) This range is provided by Silimate (YC S23). Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$120,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr Were growing the team further! Were looking for a passionate founding engineer who has significant experience with the VLSI front-end design flow and strong coding skills to join our growing team and build the co-pilot for chip designers with us.
Who You Are
Youre excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire industry, and enabling new levels of dynamism and speed for the hardware compute ecosystem.
Youll leverage your understanding of functional correctness and PPA optimization in RTL design to develop key co-pilot features that make building chips much faster, easier, and more intuitive.
Youll also work directly with our world-class customers building advanced chips and IP to iterate quickly on our product with user feedback.
We ship product updates on a weekly basis, work in-person together in the Bay Area, and geek out about semiconductor news/technology advances. If this sounds like you, please apply to join the team!
What Youll Do
Write code (Python/C++) that ships to Silimates 10+ chip/IP customers Make software architectural decisions for key product features Translate user feedback directly into product updates/features Plan core product roadmap and strategy with the founders
Minimum Requirements
Passionate and excited about chips and AI for EDA Have experience designing ASICs using SystemVerilog and synthesis/verification tools (open-source and/or commercial) 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 Seniority level
Seniority level
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Employment type
Full-time Job function
Job function
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