Recruiting from Scratch · 3 months ago
Founding Member of Technical Staff (Hardware)
San Francisco, CA|Onsite
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$200K/yr - $500K/yr
4+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm focused on placing top candidates for clients. They are partnering with a cutting-edge security startup that designs FPGA-based security solutions for AI data centers, and the role involves designing and delivering systems to ensure security at scale.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
You will design, build, and deliver FPGA/ASIC-based systems at the heart of our security product, handling unprecedented data bandwidth and ensuring tamper-proof security at scale
You'll lead customer discovery with data center partners, build production hardware, and scale solutions to secure facilities containing hundreds of thousands of GPUs
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in FPGA/ASIC engineering or electrical engineering roles
Strong record of 0-to-1 hardware design experience, especially in high-speed networking, data center hardware, or security applications
Experience at high-caliber firms such as SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, Intel, TSMC, or defense/intelligence organizations
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (PhD preferred from top universities)
Preferred
Expertise in FPGA design, HDL, Verilog, digital circuit design, and low-level systems programming
Familiarity with data center architectures, confidential computing, secure enclaves, or trusted computing
Active contributor to technical projects (portfolio, GitHub, competitions) demonstrating deep craft and engineering talent
Benefits
Equity: 0.5% - 2.5%
Visa sponsorship: Available for exceptional candidates
High-impact work building security systems for the future of AI infrastructure
Opportunity to work in a close-knit founding team shaping the foundation of secure AI compute globally
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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