Phinity ยท 2 months ago
Founding Senior RTL Design or DV Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $350K/yr
5+ years expPhinity is building the canonical training data infrastructure for hardware engineering. They are seeking a Founding Senior RTL Design or DV Engineer to lead the development of technical challenges in hardware design and collaborate with AI researchers to automate chip design processes.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Lead the building of the hardest technical challenges in hardware design: Design challenges across RTL generation, verification, debugging, timing closure, specification alignment. Create RTL design and verification problems that mirror industry complexity and build realistic RTL codebases
QA environments and manage overseas hardware teams
Work directly with frontier lab AI researchers to understand agent capabilities and training requirements
Shape the roadmap: You'll have direct input on which hardware workflows we tackle next. You will decide which design or verification tasks are the highest-value targets for AI automation and shape the data needed to achieve that future
Bring your 5-10+ years of industry experience to decide what's automatable versus what still needs human judgment
Qualification
Required
5+ years in RTL design or DV
Strong background in verification methodologies (UVM, SystemVerilog, testbench development)
Experience with synthesis, timing analysis, and debugging tools
Familiarity with industry-standard EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor Graphics)
Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration for researchers who are not hardware experts
Curiosity about AI/ML applications in hardware design
Motivated by the mission of propelling a future of hardware automation
Benefits
Generous equity compensation
Company
Phinity
Phinity gives AI the training grounds it needs to master the engineering skills that reshape civilization.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase