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Silimate, Inc.

Founding Chip/Software Engineer

Silimate, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


We’re looking for a passionate founding engineer who has significant experience with the VLSI front-end design flow and strong coding skills to 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 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 (we sponsor SemiAnalysis subscriptions for team members!). 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 to product updates/features

Be part of planning 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 benefits

Commuter stipend

Paid work lunches/dinners

Paid subscription to semiconductor newsletters (ex. SemiAnalysis, etc)

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