Applied AI Engineer, Silicon Engineering

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San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Python","LLM","AI tooling","EDA","CI/CD","Docker","C++","Rust","Terraform"]

Embed with hardware teams (RTL design, verification, DFT, physical design, and silicon validation) to build AI-powered agent workflows that accelerate chip development. You’ll wire LLM agents into simulators, analyses, and EDA flows, driving adoption and measurable impact across the silicon engineering workflow.

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Applied AI Engineer, Silicon Engineering

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Job Summary

Embed with hardware teams (RTL design, verification, DFT, physical design, and silicon validation) to build AI-powered agent workflows that accelerate chip development. You’ll wire LLM agents into simulators, analyses, and EDA flows, driving adoption and measurable impact across the silicon engineering workflow.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build, deploy, and maintain LLM-agent workflows that accelerate chip development: debugging triage, testbench and coverage work, log/waveform analysis, EDA script generation, and engineering knowledge retrieval
  • •Embed with hardware teams to identify high-leverage pain points and convert them into automated workflows with measurable adoption
  • •Design rigorous evaluations for agent performance on real silicon-engineering tasks and use results to drive iteration
  • •Integrate agents with internal infrastructure: simulation and emulation flows, CI/regression systems, lab equipment, and issue tracking via tool-calling and MCP
  • •Champion adoption through documentation, training, and fast feedback loops with engineers who use the outputs

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 275,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRelocationHousing Subsidy

Key Requirements

  • •A track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains
  • •Comfort with Python and code; ability to read, modify, debug, and direct AI to write it
  • •Fluency using AI to learn and ramp on new problems; agentic coding tools and frontier models
  • •Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling that real users depend on
  • •An eval-driven mindset; measure AI systems before scaling them
Experience:SemiconductorsAI hardwareASICEDA
Skills:PythonLLMAI toolingEDACI/CDDockerC++RustTerraform
Tech Stack:PythonLLMEDACI/CDDockerSlurmRayC++Rust

Company Brief

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Designs transformer‑specialized AI inference ASICs (product: Sohu) to accelerate large‑language‑model workloads, working with TSMC for fabrication and targeting energy‑efficient inference performance.
Industry: Hardware Devices
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 2022
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