Member of Technical Staff - AI for Chip Design
Architect Labs· Machine Learning
Palo AltoFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Applied AI role at Architect Labs bridging chip design and frontier AI to build agentic systems for real silicon, with end-to-end responsibility from prototyping to production-ready workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI agents that tackle core chip-design tasks, grounding model behavior in how real hardware engineers actually work.
- Own end-to-end agent workflows: scaffolding, tool use, evaluation harnesses, and the domain-specific infrastructure that makes agents useful on actual design problems.
- Serve as the hardware conscience of the model — curating high-quality data, defining evaluation criteria, and encoding the engineering judgment that separates plausible outputs from correct ones.
- Partner closely with the ML research, post-training, and infra teams to turn hardware domain expertise into reward signals, benchmarks, and training signal.
- Move fast in a 0→1 environment: prototype, dogfood, break things, iterate. Translate ambiguous chip-design challenges into concrete agent capabilities that ship.
Qualifications
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, EECS, or a closely related field.
- Strong industry or research experience as an RTL design or Design Verification engineer, with a solid understanding of the modern chip design flow end to end.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals — clean, production-grade Python or TypeScript, building tooling, and working in modern engineering environments.
- Builder Mindset: able to own ambiguous problems end to end, prototype quickly, and productionize what works.
- Curiosity for AI: excitement about applying frontier AI to hardware; no prior applied-AI or ML research background required.
Skills
Required:MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, EECS, or related fieldRTL design or Design Verification experiencePython or TypeScriptBuilder mindsetCuriosity for frontier AI in hardware
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity stake
- Fast-paced startup with autonomy and visible impact
- Cutting-edge AI-driven chip design challenges
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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