AI/ML Founding Engineer

2 hours ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India AsicBot AI Full time ₹ 20,00,000 - ₹ 40,00,000 per year

About Us

We're revolutionizing semiconductor design with AI. Every smartphone, car, and AI system depends on chips that currently take years and hundreds of millions to design. Our AI-powered platform automates complex design tasks, dramatically reducing time-to-market and development costs in the $600B+ semiconductor industry.

Currently bootstrapped and in pre-seed discussions, we're building the future of chip design.

The Opportunity

As a Founding AI/ML Engineer, you'll:

Shape & Lead

  • Build our technical foundation with entrepreneurial autonomy
  • Mentor junior engineers and set technical standards
  • Drive product direction, architecture, and company culture

Innovate & Deliver

  • Identify critical challenges and architect elegant solutions
  • Bridge technical and business stakeholders with exceptional communication
  • Tackle both ML and non-ML engineering challenges

Grow & Build

  • Join a high-caliber team valuing technical excellence and startup spirit
  • Prioritize learning and long-term career trajectory
  • Embrace significant upside potential in a fast-moving startup

What You'll Do

Research:
Stay ahead of LLMs, VLMs, and GenAI advances, translating cutting-edge research into practical chip design solutions

Engineering:
Own the full ML lifecycle—data processing, model architecture, training, evaluation, and MLOps. Design and maintain production LLM applications

Collaboration:
Partner with product engineers, designers, and data scientists to build AI solutions that transform chip design workflows

Communication:
Effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

Required Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field
  • Ph.D. or equivalent experience is a plus

Experience (3+ years in ML)

  • Deployed AI models in real-world production applications
  • Instruction fine-tuning and prompt engineering for domain-specific LLMs
  • Built retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
  • LLM inference optimization (e.g., vLLM)
  • Cloud deployment and scaling of AI/ML systems
  • LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face)

Bonus Experience

  • LangGraph, GPU/TPU provisioning, Kubernetes/MLOps
  • Context management (chunking, summarization, sliding windows)
  • AI-assisted coding tools and code generation challenges
  • Model monitoring and MLOps workflows

Technical Skills

  • Core: Expert Python, PyTorch
  • Backend: Flask, FastAPI, Django for APIs and services
  • DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Plus: JavaScript/TypeScript, , , SQL/NoSQL, REST/GraphQL APIs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Research papers in AI/ML venues or impactful technical blog posts
  • Active open-source contributions, Kaggle competitions
  • Prior startup experience in fast-paced environments

Why Join Us?

Founding team impact on a transformative technology High-growth potential in a massive industry Work with cutting-edge AI/ML technologies Collaborative, high-caliber team environment Significant equity upside potential

Location:
Bangalore, India

How to Apply:
Send your resume and a brief note about why you're interested to

Passionate about advancing AI and thriving in dynamic environments? Let's talk.

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