AI / ML Founding Engineer

About Us We're revolutionizing semiconductor design with AI. Every smartphone, car, and AI system depends on chips that currently take years and hundreds of millions to design. Our AI-powered platform automates complex design tasks, dramatically reducing time-to-market and development costs in the $600B+ semiconductor industry.

Currently bootstrapped and in pre-seed discussions, we're building the future of chip design.

The Opportunity As a Founding AI / ML Engineer, you'll :

Shape & Lead

Build our technical foundation with entrepreneurial autonomy

Mentor junior engineers and set technical standards

Drive product direction, architecture, and company culture

Innovate & Deliver

Identify critical challenges and architect elegant solutions

Bridge technical and business stakeholders with exceptional communication

Tackle both ML and non-ML engineering challenges

Grow & Build

Join a high-caliber team valuing technical excellence and startup spirit

Prioritize learning and long-term career trajectory

Embrace significant upside potential in a fast-moving startup

What You'll Do

Research :

Stay ahead of LLMs, VLMs, and GenAI advances, translating cutting-edge research into practical chip design solutions

Engineering :

Own the full ML lifecycle—data processing, model architecture, training, evaluation, and MLOps. Design and maintain production LLM applications

Collaboration :

Partner with product engineers, designers, and data scientists to build AI solutions that transform chip design workflows

Communication :

Effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

Required Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field

Ph.D. or equivalent experience is a plus

Experience (3+ years in ML)

Deployed AI models in real-world production applications

Instruction fine-tuning and prompt engineering for domain-specific LLMs

Built retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines

LLM inference optimization (e.g., vLLM)

Cloud deployment and scaling of AI / ML systems

LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face)

Bonus Experience

LangGraph, GPU / TPU provisioning, Kubernetes / MLOps

Context management (chunking, summarization, sliding windows)

AI-assisted coding tools and code generation challenges

Model monitoring and MLOps workflows

Technical Skills

Core : Expert Python, PyTorch

Backend : Flask, FastAPI, Django for APIs and services

DevOps : Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / Azure / GCP

Plus : JavaScript / TypeScript, React / Angular / Vue.js, Node.js, SQL / NoSQL, REST / GraphQL APIs

Preferred Qualifications

Research papers in AI / ML venues or impactful technical blog posts

Active open-source contributions, Kaggle competitions

Prior startup experience in fast-paced environments

Why Join Us? Founding team impact on a transformative technology High-growth potential in a massive industry Work with cutting-edge AI / ML technologies Collaborative, high-caliber team environment Significant equity upside potential

Location : Bangalore, India

How to Apply :

Send your resume and a brief note about why you're interested to hiring@asicbot.ai.

Passionate about advancing AI and thriving in dynamic environments? Let's talk.

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