AI-Driven Chip Architect | Edge Compute & Tapeout Lead

Phinity Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Lunch and dinner provided in-office

Job summary

Phinity Labs, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Chip Architect to lead the design of edge compute chips, guiding microarchitecture, PPA, timing, area, and power while balancing physical feasibility.

You will work directly with founders and frontier researchers, making architecture decisions that endure verification and signoff, and evangelizing AI-enabled tooling to accelerate hardware development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years architecting and shipping complex chips or subsystems through tapeout.
• RTL, microarchitecture, PPA optimization, verification, and signoff.
• Experience using AI to develop chips.
• Strong communication in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive development of edge compute chips, owning microarchitecture, PPA, timing, area, power, and physical feasibility.
• Make architecture decisions that survive verification constraints and own the design bar.
• Establish verification and signoff practice across simulation, formal, and physical design.
• Explain design decisions clearly and help encode judgments into tooling for rapid hardware development.
• Collaborate with founders and frontier lab researchers on-chip construction.

Skills

Chip architecture

Edge compute chips

AI-assisted design

Communication skills

Job description

Phinity Labs, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Chip Architect to lead the design of edge compute chips, guiding microarchitecture, PPA, timing, area, and power while balancing physical feasibility.

You will work directly with founders and frontier researchers, making architecture decisions that endure verification and signoff, and evangelizing AI-enabled tooling to accelerate hardware development.