# Applied AI Engineer

**Company:** [Silimate](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/silimate)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 140K–220K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Listed:** 2026-08-05

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/silimate/applied-ai-engineer-102954)

## Job description

**We’re looking for an engineer with significant AI/ML + LLM experience to build AI-native core tools and agents for frontend chip design workflows.**

### **Who you are:**

You are excited about transforming the way chips are built by the semiconductor industry.

You are resourceful, a self-starter, and care intensely about the quality of your work.

You want to work at a scrappy startup that sets and meets aggressive goals.

You want to own/drive core product and write/ship code every day.

You want to work with our customers/users and translate their feedback into company/product direction.

**If this sounds like you, please apply to join the team!**

### **What you’ll do:**

-   Develop AI models, core tools, and infrastructure that ship to Fortune enterprises and chip unicorns
-   Make architectural decisions for key product features
-   Translate user feedback into product updates/features
-   Plan core product roadmap and strategy

### **Minimum requirements:**

-   Highly skilled with Python, C++, PyTorch/torch
-   Strong understanding of traditional ML models, LLMs, foundation models, and agents
-   Experience building ML pipelines
-   Experience fine-tuning and benchmarking LLMs/foundation models
-   Excited about applying AI/ML techniques to chip design
-   Good at shipping high-quality code quickly
-   Resilient, data-driven, and works from first principles

### **Ideal requirements:**

-   Have shipped product using LLMs, foundation models, and/or agentic workflows
-   Experience with AWS SageMaker

### **Nice-to-have requirements:**

-   Experience with AI/ML-driven chip EDA software tooling (either open-source or commercial tools)
-   Experience with designing chips (either open-source or commercial designs)

### **Benefits:**

-   Generous salary and equity package
-   Full health/vision/dental/401k benefits
-   Team meals

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**Apply to chat with the founders about the details!**

## Other open roles at Silimate

- [AI Research Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/silimate/ai-research-intern-102957) — Mountain View, CA, US
- [Chip/Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/silimate/chip-software-engineer-102955) — Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US
- [Chip/EDA/Software Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/silimate/chip-eda-software-intern-102953) — Mountain View, CA, US
- [Applied AI Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/silimate/applied-ai-intern-102956) — Mountain View, CA, US

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