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Member of Technical Staff at Generation Alpha Transistor (San Francisco, CA)

Generation Alpha Transistor· San Francisco, CA·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

As an MTS you'll work in a dynamic, high-growth, collaboration-heavy environment, directly with our founders and customers, including some of the world’s biggest & highest-impact semiconductor designers & fabs. Expect to work on any & all of:

Full-Stack AI Agents

  • Develop AI agents for novel chip design problems
  • Experience with LLM-based systems, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc), LLM encodings, foundation models, ML systems, fine-tuning, RAG, GraphRAG all pluses
  • Develop automated methods to extract structured data from diverse sources including documents & images
  • Test, evaluate, and characterize natural language AI systems
  • Requires proficiency with one or more of Python, TypeScript, Rust

Front-End & Graphics & GUI

  • Develop a high-performance web + desktop 2D graphical CAD environment
  • Experience with WebGL, WebGPU, or other graphics APIs highly desirable
  • Experience with 2D graphics, computational geometry, game engines, graphics engines, high-performance rendering all pluses, especially in the context of CAD design systems
  • Knowledge of WebAssembly/ WASM & other high-performance performance frontend tactics highly desirable
  • No web framework experience required. No React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Elm, none of that. None of the bolt-on tools such as Redux, MobX either.
  • Experience with high-performance/ binary serialization formats such as ProtoBuf, Capn Proto, FlatBuffers etc a plus
  • Requires proficiency with one or more of TypeScript, Rust

Silicon EDA

  • Develop novel tactics for silicon electronic design automation (EDA)
  • Focus on physical design of analog, RF, and custom circuits, e.g. memory, standard cells
  • Optimizing placement, routing, extraction, simulation, physical verification (LVS, DRC)
  • Knowledge of silicon design flow & typical chip data (LEF, DEF, GDS, Spice, etc)
  • Requires proficiency with one or more of C++, Rust

We do not expect you to know all those things! But the more the merrier. If any of these areas sounds like you - and especially if learning the others sounds like fun - reach out here or on LinkedIn or to careers@gen-alpha.io.

Why work at Generation Alpha Transistor

  • Culture highlights: Early-stage startup (6 people) with a tight-knit, research-driven team from UC Berkeley. Emphasis on applying cutting-edge AI to a real-world hardware bottleneck – a “silicon renaissance” mission.
  • Remote/hybrid/office policy: On-site workspace in San Francisco (523 Dolores St). Employees work from physical offices; typical time on-site is full-time.
  • Notable perks: Opportunity to shape the product and culture from the ground up. Work alongside PhDs with deep expertise in software, semiconductors, ML, and AI. Backed by top-tier investors and government support.

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