Founding ASIC Architect / RTL & FPGA Lead

New York, San Francisco
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

We are building something new and ambitious.

We are backed by NVIDIA along with other major VCs.

Our goal is to close the gap between artificial intelligence and reflex.

We are looking for engineers who want to design and bring to life new AI hardware from first principles.

Apply if you:

  • Write excellent SystemVerilog / Verilog
  • Can turn complex math into solid microarchitecture and production RTL
  • Understand the hard parts: timing, pipelining, latency, area, power, CDC, reset, and verification handoff
  • Have experience with FPGA prototyping / emulation
  • Like operating in a small team with high ownership and high technical standards

Bonus:

  • Strong understanding of CUDA, model quantizations, fundamentals of AI Inference
  • You love games like Factorio, Satisfactory

What you get:

  • Healthcare, dental, vision, all the good stuff
  • Base $160,000 - $250,000
  • Every tool you need to succeed
  • Equity
  • A chance to usher in the age of silicon based lifeforms (only partially kidding)

If you're good, ambitious, and want to work on a hard problem with serious upside, reach out.

About Baud

Novel AI hardware and developer platform, built from first principles to let companies train, fine-tune, and deploy frontier models with orders of magnitude better performance than incumbents

Required skills

Torch/PyTorch

Interested?

Let me introduce you to the founders.

Skip the process

Job details

Salary

$160,000 - $250,000

Equity

0.01% - 2%

Location

New York, San Francisco

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameBaud
IndustryHard Tech
Team Size3

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
NVIDIA

Founders

Sarang Zambare

Sarang Zambare

Founder & CEO

LinkedIn
ET

Eric Taylor

Founder & Chief Hardware Architect

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.