Founding Hardware ML Engineer (VLSI/Systems)

Oho Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Oho Group in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Hardware Research Engineer to build data pipelines, environments and evaluation frameworks for training and testing AI agents on real hardware engineering tasks.

This highly technical role offers ownership at the intersection of AI research and semiconductor engineering, with significant hands-on development and rapid iteration across hardware and ML challenges.

Qualifications

• Strong background in low-level systems engineering and/or VLSI design.
• Excellent engineering fundamentals and strong research intuition.
• Demonstrated ownership, initiative, and leadership potential.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale experimental environments to evaluate AI agents on real-world hardware engineering tasks.
• Conduct research and experimentation at the intersection of hardware engineering and machine learning.
• Develop robust data generation and evaluation processes to support AI-driven hardware design.

Skills

Low-level systems

VLSI design

Leadership potential

Job description

Oho Group in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Hardware Research Engineer to build data pipelines, environments and evaluation frameworks for training and testing AI agents on real hardware engineering tasks.

This highly technical role offers ownership at the intersection of AI research and semiconductor engineering, with significant hands-on development and rapid iteration across hardware and ML challenges.