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Silimate

Applied AI Engineer

Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US

Full-time

**We’re looking for an engineer with significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build AI-native core tools and agents for frontend chip design workflows.**

### **Who you are:**

You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the semiconductor industry. You are resourceful, a self-starter, and care intensely about the quality of your work. You want to work at a scrappy startup that sets and meets aggressive goals. You want to own/drive core product and write/ship code every day. You want to work with our customers/users and translate their feedback into company/product direction. **If this sounds like you, please apply to join the team!**

### **What you’ll do:**

  • Develop AI models, core tools, and infrastructure that ship to Fortune enterprises and chip unicorns
  • Make architectural decisions for key product features
  • Translate user feedback into product updates/features
  • Plan core product roadmap and strategy

### **Minimum requirements:**

  • Highly skilled with Python, C++, PyTorch/torch
  • Strong understanding of traditional ML models, LLMs, foundation models, and agents
  • Experience building ML pipelines
  • Experience fine-tuning and benchmarking LLMs/foundation models
  • Excited about applying AI/ML techniques to chip design
  • Good at shipping high-quality code quickly
  • Resilient, data-driven, and works from first principles

### **Ideal requirements:**

  • Have shipped product using LLMs, foundation models, and/or agentic workflows
  • Experience with AWS SageMaker

### **Nice-to-have requirements:**

  • Experience with AI/ML-driven chip EDA software tooling (either open-source or commercial tools)
  • Experience with designing chips (either open-source or commercial designs)

### **Benefits:**

  • Generous salary and equity package
  • Full health/vision/dental/401k benefits
  • Team meals

— **Apply to chat with the founders about the details!**

Bron 2026-10-23