Silimate (YC S23) is seeking a Founding ML Engineer to join their team in San Francisco, CA. The role involves building the copilot for chip designers using significant AI/ML and LLM experience.
About the Role
As a Founding ML Engineer, you will develop AI models and infrastructure for over 10 chip/IP customers, make architectural decisions for key product features, translate user feedback into product updates, and plan the core product roadmap and strategy with the founders.
About You
Required:
Highly skilled with Python, C++, and 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.
Preferred:
Have shipped product using LLMs, foundation models, and/or agentic workflows.
Experience with AWS SageMaker.
Benefits
Generous salary and equity package.
Full health/vision/dental/401k benefits.
Team meals.
Silimate (YC S23)
Find and fix functional and PPA issues in your chip designs with Silimate's chip design copilot.