RFIC Silicon Lead
About Tacit
We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. We are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Greylock Partners, with a founding team from Stanford, BrainGate, Oculus, and Tesla. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.
About the role
We are building CMOS RF systems at ultra low-power envelopes. We are looking for our first silicon hire: the person who will define the RF CMOS architecture, translate Tacit’s sensing and ML constraints into circuit reality, and set the technical foundation for everything that follows.
This role starts hands-on. You will work at the transistor level, stand up the initial design environment, evaluate process options, simulate and design critical blocks, and drive early silicon decisions. But the most important responsibility is architectural judgment: determining what RF front-end, synthesizer, power-management, and duty-cycling approaches can actually close in CMOS at our target power envelopes.
The rare skill we are looking for is not generic RFIC execution. It is the ability to reason across system architecture, low-power CMOS RF,
