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Base pay range
$120,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr
We’re growing the team further! We’re 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
You’re 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.
You’ll 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.
You’ll 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 You’ll Do
- Write code (Python/C++) that ships to Silimate’s 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
- 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
- 1+ tapeouts (ideally on advanced technology nodes)
- Contributor to open-source EDA/chip efforts
- Significant experience with PPA optimization and/or functional correctness convergence
- Generous salary and equity package
- Full health/vision/dental/401k benefits
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