Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)
Core
Build agentic harnesses and operating systems to accelerate the production of frontier tokens by embedding with the ASIC team to solve hardware bottlenecks.
Role type
Senior IC research engineer (ASIC acceleration & agentic systems)
Builds
Agentic harnesses, execution environments, and full-stack internal products for hardware engineering workflows
Domain
AI hardware (ASIC) & Agentic AI 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
LLMs, tool-calling, MCP, simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers
Responsibilities
Embed with ASIC team to identify and solve high-leverage bottlenecks; Build and deploy LLM agents for engineering workflows; Create execution environments for agent verification; Ship full-stack internal products; Design evals and track adoption; Execute special projects with founders
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
