Applied AI Engineer

About Silimate

Fast, efficient agents for chip design and debug

The role

**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!**