Silimate

The copilot for chip designers

Chip/Software Engineer

$140K - $220K0.50% - 2.00%Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
1+ years
Visa
Will sponsor
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Ann Wu
Ann Wu
Founder

About the role

We’re looking for a key engineer with significant experience with the VLSI front-end design flow and strong coding skills to help us build/scale chip AI models and agent-driven workflows.

Who you are:

You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire chip 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:

  • Write code (Python/C++) that ships to Fortune 500s and chip unicorns
  • Make software architectural decisions for key product features
  • Translate user feedback into product updates/features
  • Plan core product roadmap and strategy

Minimum requirements:

  • Passionate and excited about chips and AI for EDA
  • Experienced with designing ASICs using SystemVerilog and synthesis/verification tools (open-source and/or commercial)
  • Experienced with common front-end EDA tools
  • 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/401k benefits
  • Team meals

Apply to chat with the founders about the details!

About Silimate

Silimate helps chip teams at Fortune 500s and unicorns build better chips faster.

At Silimate, we're building AI-native core tools & agent-driven workflows for frontend chip design. Today, Silimate is helping chip teams create & iterate to correct, PPA-optimized designs 40x faster. Our goal is to enable autonomous spec-to-design for silicon.

We're profitable, growing fast, and hiring for key roles to drive our product development and customer support.

If you want to transform how chips are designed by the entire chip industry, join us!

Silimate
Founded:2023
Batch:S23
Team Size:8
Status:
Active
Location:Mountain View
Founders
Akash Levy
Akash Levy
Founder
Ann Wu
Ann Wu
Founder