ML Engineer
ML Engineer at Silimate — Mountain View, CA, US
- Company: Silimate
- Location: Mountain View, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 140000–220000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re looking for a key engineer with significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build AI-native core tools and models for agent-driven chip design workflows.
Who you are:
You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the entire chip 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 500s 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
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Apply to chat with the founders about the details!