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Founding ML Engineer

Job in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, 94039, USA
Listing for: Silimate, Inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-16
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Engineer, Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

We’re growing the team further! We’re looking for a Founding Engineer with significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build the copilot for chip designers with us.

Who you are:

You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire chip industry, by enabling 100x faster dynamism and speed in chip design cycles.

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/infrastructure that ship to 10+ chip/IP customers
  • Make architectural decisions for key product features
  • Translate user feedback into product updates/features
  • Plan core product roadmap and strategy with the founders
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 Sage Maker
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!

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