--- title: 'Strategic Projects Lead at Voltai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-projects-lead-voltai-menlo-park-kx0n2cwm9v1b' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Strategic Projects Lead at Voltai - **Company:** Voltai - **Location:** Menlo Park, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voltai.careers/681ec47f-3ea9-4a3f-9207-041d29240aae ## Job description ## About Voltai Voltai is developing models and agents that learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware: electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design beyond human cognitive limits. ## About the Team Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors as well as Stanford University and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents. ## About this Role Voltai Inc. is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead in Menlo Park, California to drive end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs (spanning AI/ML, data operations, engineering, and product evaluation) by aligning stakeholders, managing scope/resources, and removing bottlenecks. You will also build and continuously improve scalable workflows, documentation/QA/compliance standards, and data pipelines while coordinating distributed teams and specialized contractors. ## Key Responsibilities - Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, cross-functional projects in technical domains such as data operations, AI/ML model development, engineering design, and product evaluation. - Oversee the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of workflows and systems for large, distributed teams comprising engineers, analysts, contractors, and technical specialists. - Develop and enforce industry-standard practices for project documentation, quality assurance, and compliance across multiple technical programs. - Collaborate with engineering, business development, and product teams to define requirements, manage project scope, prioritize initiatives, and resolve bottlenecks for strategic business objectives. - Manage project tracking, resource allocation, and milestone delivery using project management platforms (such as Jira, Notion, Linear, or similar). - Recruit, onboard, and coordinate specialized contractors and subject matter experts for diverse technical projects, including but not limited to data collection, annotation, engineering analysis, or hardware evaluation. - Identify, evaluate, and implement strategies for sourcing and processing technical and engineering data for use in AI/ML training. - Develop, document, and refine scalable data pipelines and automated processes, ensuring compliance with industry standards and enabling rapid adaptation to changing technical requirements. ## Requirements Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field, and four years of experience in the job offered, or in an engineering-related occupation. Position requires experience in the following: - 2 years of experience working with multi-disciplinary technical teams in one or more of the following domains: AI/ML, engineering design, data operations, product development, or technical program management. - 2 years of experience designing, implementing, and improving operational processes, quality assurance protocols, or documentation standards in technical environments. - 2 years of experience working in industries related to hardware manufacturing, design engineering, semiconductor development or similar with a demonstrated understanding of end-to-end hardware design methodologies. - 2 years of demonstrated experience in process improvement and analytical problem solving. - 1 year of experience managing complex projects using advanced project management platforms (Jira, Notion, Linear, or similar) with responsibility for workflow optimization and resource allocation. - 1 year of experience in coordinating projects and translating data into strategic business insights. If you're seeing this outside of Voltai's Careers Page: To apply, please visit [https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voltai.careers], locate the job title referenced above and click “apply for this job.” ## About Voltai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Voltai develops AI models and agentic systems that learn, plan, and experiment to design PCBs, ASICs, and other semiconductor/electronics hardware, aiming to surpass human cognitive limits in physical-world engineering. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage – pre-seed funding round reported in October 2025) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, United States (also has presence in Germany) - **Founded**: 2015 (as per Tracxn; recent operational activity suggests a more current iteration) - **Founders**: Not publicly named as co-founders; current CEO is Priyanka Mathikshara (per Tracxn), CSO is Labib Tazwar Rahman (per LinkedIn). The team includes former Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, and alumni from Synopsys, GlobalFoundries, and Cadence. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI for semiconductor and electronics design (hardware design automation) - **Target customers**: B2B – the world’s largest semiconductor companies, consumer electronics makers, automotive OEMs, and sovereign nations - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build superintelligent systems that can reason across the entire hardware-software-manufacturing stack, enabling the next frontier of physical-world engineering. ## Products & Services - **[Voltai AI Platform]**: A suite of AI models and agents that co-design electronics and semiconductors. The system uses world models to run billions of virtual experiments, bypassing the prohibitive cost and time of physical prototyping. Outputs include PCB layouts, ASIC designs, and manufacturing blueprints. (Type: AI/ML SaaS with physical verification) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Raised CAD$1.83M in pre-seed funding in October 2025 from Invest Nova Scotia, Cloudberry Pioneer Investments, and others (conflicting with Tracxn’s “unfunded” status – see Sources). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “Silicon Valley’s top investors”, Stanford University, and executives/CEOs of Google, AMD, and Broadcom (per website). Strategic partners include major semiconductor and consumer electronics firms. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~600% YoY (from very small base); currently 3–4 employees with 27 active job postings (as of mid-2026). Website claims partnerships with “most of the world’s largest semiconductor companies” and sovereign nations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-specific foundation models**: Unlike general-purpose AI, Voltai’s models are trained on proprietary real-world hardware data and can reason over long horizons (months-to-years design cycles). - **World model simulation**: Runs billions of experiments in silico, a unique capability that reduces the need for costly physical tape-outs. - **Elite talent pool**: Team includes former CTOs of Synopsys and GlobalFoundries, a former US Secretary of Defense, and Olympic medalists (IPhO, IOI) – an unusually deep combination of AI research and semiconductor executive experience. - **Board-level strategic priority**: Already has commitments from top-tier semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, including sovereign nations, giving it rare access and validation. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the AI platform to cover the full electronics stack (from PCB to ASIC to manufacturing); hiring aggressively across research (post-training, CUDA kernel engineering), hardware engineering (system, power, server), and enterprise sales; expanding partnerships with global semiconductor leaders. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes high-agency, interdisciplinary work at the intersection of AI and physical engineering. The team includes Olympiad medalists and former CTOs – a “smartest in the room” environment. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Fully remote (as indicated on Built In and LinkedIn). Employees work from the United States and Germany. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on frontier AI problems with direct impact on the semiconductor industry; access to unrivaled industry partners and compute resources. - **Engineering culture**: Heavy focus on research engineering (CUDA, post-training, systems), with open roles for both software and hardware engineers. Emphasis on real-world validation and iterative experimentation. ## Sources 1. [voltai.com](https://www.voltai.com/) 2. [LinkedIn – Voltai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/voltai-inc) 3. [Built In – Voltai Careers](https://builtin.com/company/voltai) 4. [Tracxn – Voltai Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/voltai/__HV-xuXnVpXmBMrSANdeEmHzMlZPWefz9YZpOVAklfDE) 5. [FinSMEs – Voltai Raises CAD$1.83M in Pre-Seed Funding](https://www.finsmes.com) (referenced in search snippet) 6. 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