Applied AI Engineer

Silimate is a developer of automation platform designed to streamline chip design workflows.

Location: Mountain View, CA
Company size: 2–10
Posted: 2w ago
Via: Yc

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Job listing · Updated 21 AUG 2026

Applied AI Engineer

Silimate· Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, USView company profile

Job title: Applied AI Engineer
Job location: Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/silimate/jobs/RVX3ulq-applied-ai-engineer
Job description: **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!**

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