Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)
Core
Build agentic harnesses and operating systems to accelerate the production of frontier tokens by embedding with the hardware team to solve bottlenecks in chip development, kernels, and manufacturing workflows.
Role type
Senior IC research engineer (hardware acceleration & agentic systems)
Builds
Internal tools, execution environments, and full-stack products for hardware engineering workflows
Domain
AI infrastructure, hardware co-design, chip development, and inference systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
software engineering, agent design, tool design, long-context management, distributed systems, experiment infrastructure, eval design, failure analysis, product sense
Preferred skills
chip development, kernels, hardware, manufacturing, infrastructure, data engineering, DevOps, fine-tuning, RAG, multi-agent orchestration
Technologies
LLM agents, tool-calling, MCP, simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers
Responsibilities
Embed with hardware team to identify and solve high-leverage bottlenecks; Build and deploy LLM agents into engineering workflows; Create execution environments for agent verification; Ship full-stack internal products from zero to one; Design evals and track adoption; Execute special projects with founders
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
