Scientist AI & Chip Design

Job Description

<p>We're hiring teammates at the intersection of AI/ML and chip design-people who love building, move fast, and care about doing excellent work.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>About the role</b></p><p>You'll work at the boundary between our AI and hardware efforts to build systems that make chip design workflows better.</p><p>You will:</p><p> Build and iterate on <b>data generation</b> (including synthetic data) for chip-design tasks</p><p> <b>Train </b>ML models</p><p> Design robust <b>evaluation</b> methodology</p><p> Integrate with hardware workflows</p><p> Collaborate closely with engineers across AI + hardware + software, and own projects end-to-end</p><p>Locations: <b>Bay Area (US)</b> and<b> Toronto (Canada)</b></p><p>Work style:<b> In-person </b>(both offices have a vibrant, builder-heavy culture)</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>About you</b></p><p>You have <b>baseline knowledge in both domains</b>:</p><p>1.<b> AI/ML:</b> familiarity with deep learning + data/model development</p><p>2. <b>Chip design:</b> basic understanding of circuit design and SystemVerilog implementations</p><p>And you have <b>deep strength in at least one</b> of:</p><p> Data pipelines / data engineering</p><p> Reinforcement learning (RL)</p><p> UVM</p><p> Formal verification</p><p> SystemVerilog (advanced)</p><p>You're collaborative, take initiative, and can lead when needed.</p><p>We care that you've shown you can do exceptional work. Examples:</p><p> You built a product or system that people used</p><p> You made major contributions to a respected codebase / repo</p><p> You've done meaningful work in a high-performing environment (such as top companies)</p><p> You shipped a standout project end-to-end</p><p> You have strong publications-or similarly rigorous proof of ability</p><p> Or anything else that clearly demonstrates you can execute at a very high level</p><p>We love building. We want people who are passionate about their craft.</p><p>We value a talent-to-ego ratio > 1.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>About us</b></p><p>You'll join a highly collaborative team working on a difficult, exciting problem. Collectively, our team has:</p><p> Founded startups and scaled them to IPO</p><p> Led development of products used by millions</p><p> Earned 23,000+ scientific citations</p><p> Held leadership roles at places like Google, NVIDIA, Amazon, Synopsys, and more</p><p> Won medals in international science Olympiads</p><p><br></p><p>If you're excited to tackle hard problems and build real systems, let's connect.</p>