RTL and Design Verification Engineer

Ricursive; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricursive Intelligence in Palo Alto, CA, is hiring engineers and researchers to push the boundaries of self-improving systems. You will work hands-on on RTL, design verification, and high-impact chip design, designing algorithms and running large-scale experiments with an elite team.

As a startup, you will ship products that transform chip development and accelerate toward artificial superintelligence, collaborating across hardware and software to close the loop between AI and hardware.

Qualifications

• Experience with RTL and design verification in chip design.
• Track record shipping frontier AI models or advanced chips is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design algorithms for self-improving systems and chips.
• Run large-scale experiments and validate results.
• Ship products that transform chip design.

Skills

RTL

Design verification

Chips design

Job description

Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI Lab focused on building self‑improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence.

We are hiring best‑in‑class engineers and researchers with real depth in RTL and design verification. You will tackle deeply technical, high‑impact challenges alongside an elite team that has previously shipped frontier AI models and advanced chips. As a startup, everyone is hands‑on; you will design algorithms, run large‑scale experiments, and ship products that transform chip design.