Voltai ยท 2 months ago
Research Engineer - Mid-Training
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid LevelVoltai is developing advanced world models and agents for hardware and semiconductor design. The role involves training models to become experts in semiconductor design and verification, generating synthetic design data, and collaborating with engineers to improve model-driven design intelligence.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
You will train frontier models to become highly knowledgeable semiconductor design and verification experts that serve as the foundation for reinforcement learning and automated chip development
You will develop methods for generating and curating synthetic design data, performing model distillation, and enabling continual learning at scale
You will work closely with hardware engineers, RL researchers, and verification specialists to create evals that guide design data quality and model improvement
You will collaborate with compute engineers to scale efficient training across thousands of GPUs and RL environments
You will build high-performance tools to investigate how data and simulation shape model-driven design intelligence
Qualification
Required
Training LLMs or foundation models on semiconductor design and verification corpora (e.g., RTL, netlists, PDKs, simulation logs)
Modeling design scaling laws and optimizing compute budgets for chip-design-specific workloads
Generating large-scale synthetic design data (e.g., RTL variants, testbenches, verification traces)
Building evals that correlate with downstream design metrics (e.g., timing closure, power, area, verification coverage)
Company
Voltai
AI models for electronics
11-50 employees
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