Senior Silicon Engineer

About the Role

As a founding silicon team member at a well-funded AI accelerator startup, you will lead the full journey of a custom XPU from FPGA prototype through tapeout and bring-up. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role that sets technical direction across architecture, RTL, verification, and tooling while the silicon organization grows around you.

What You'll Do

• Lead FPGA prototype development and optimization of the XPU, taking designs from specification to working silicon.

• Design and review RTL destined for the first ASIC, ensuring clean microarchitecture and synthesizable code.

• Build lint, simulation, synthesis, timing, and verification flows to support rapid iteration and tapeout readiness.

• Make architecture decisions spanning compute datapaths, memory systems, on-chip interconnect, and control logic.

• Drive the design through tapeout, bring-up, and delivery milestones, including critical-sprint periods.

• Grow and mentor the silicon team as the company scales.

What We're Looking For

• 8 or more years of hands-on digital design or silicon engineering experience building RTL, FPGA pro