Member of Technical Staff

Generation Alpha Transistor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Equity for all team members

Work visa sponsorship

Job summary

An innovative semiconductor startup seeks a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) to bring AI into chip design. The role involves developing high-performance tools, optimizing circuit design, and working closely with a talented team. Proficiency in programming languages like Python, TypeScript, and Rust is essential. A passion for learning and thriving in a startup culture is a must. Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical coverage and equity, are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience developing high-performance web and desktop applications.
• Ability to automate data extraction from diverse sources.
• Familiarity with physical design of analog and RF circuits.

Responsibilities

• Work in a dynamic, high-growth environment with founders and customers.
• Develop automated methods for structured data extraction.
• Optimize circuit placement, routing, and verification.

Skills

Experience with LLM-based systems

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in TypeScript

Proficiency in Rust

Experience with WebGL

Understanding of silicon design flow

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

WebAssembly

Game engines

High-performance rendering tools

Job description

Generation Alpha Transistor is an early stage startup bringing AI tolicing design. Founded in 2024 by a team of world-class experts in semiconductors, ML and AI, and well-funded by Silicon Valley’s best VCs.

We’re in a silicon renaissance, fueled by demand for AI and the end of Moore’s Law. NVDA going to infinity is barely the start of the first inning. There’s only one problem: designing all those new chips. At nanometer scales this has grown exponentially more complex, costly, and laborious. GenAlpha brings the power of AI to automate their most painful bottlenecks.

As an MTS you'll work in a dynamic, high-growth, collaboration-heavy environment, directly with our founders and customers, including some of the world’s biggest & highest-impact semiconductor designers & fabs. Expectесед to work on any & all of:

Full-Stack AI Agents

• Experience with LLM-based systems, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc), LLM encodings, foundation models, ML systems, fine-tuning, RAG, GraphRAG all pluses
• Develop automated methods to extract structured data from diverse sources including documents & images
• Test, evaluate, and characterize natural language AI systems
• Requires proficiency with one or more of Python, TypeScript, Rust

Front-End & Graphics & GUI

• Develop a high-performance web + desktop 2D graphical CAD environment
• Experience with WebGL, WebGPU, or other graphics APIs highly desirable
• Experience with 2D graphics,Romcomputational geometry, game engines, graphics engines, high-performance rendering all pluses, especially in the context of CAD design systems
• Knowledge of WebAssembly/ WASM & other high-performance performance frontend tactics highly desirable
• No web framework experience required. No React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Elm, none of that. None of the bolt-on tools such as Redux, MobX either.
• Experience with high-performance/ binary serialization formats such as ProtoBuf, Capn Proto, FlatBuffers etc a plus
• Requires proficiency with one or more of TypeScript, Rust
• Focus on physical design of analog, RF, and custom circuits, e.g. memory, standard cells
• Optimizing placement, routing, extraction, simulation, physical verification (LVS, DRC)
• Knowledge of silicon design flow & typical chip data (LEF, DEF, GDS, Spice, etc)
• Requires proficiency with one or more of C++, Rust

We do not expect you to know all thoseક્ષણ things! But the more the merrier. If any of these areas sounds like you - and especially if learning the others sounds like fun - reach out here or on LinkedIn or to [e-mail].

Culture

We're a small, all-technical team, all working at the forefront of turning AI intro next-gen silicon. We're in-office, in-person by design, optimized for collaboration. We value software generalists & polyglots who are انداز af~ afraid to try & learn new & valuable tools, wherever they can be found. Past experience in cloud-native B2B and customer-facing engineering roles is a plus. Desire to grow يول into engineering leadership is a plus. Desire to work in a rapidly changing, early stage startup environment is a must.

Everyone on the Gen Alpha team gets the same title: Member of Technical Staff. Compensation varies with experience and fit, with competitive salaries and meaningful equity for all team members. We provide the best medical, dental, and vision coverage we can get, for both you and family. We sponsor work visas and permanent residency applications for qualified international candidates.