Voltai
Research Engineer - Mid-Training
Palo Alto Office · Full-time · Posted Nov 6, 2025
About the job
Train frontier models to become semiconductor design and verification experts, supporting reinforcement learning and automated chip development.
What you'll do
- Develop methods for generating and curating synthetic design data, model distillation, and continual learning.
- Create evaluations with hardware engineers, RL researchers, and verification specialists to guide data quality and model improvement.
- Scale efficient training across thousands of GPUs and RL environments, and build tools to study data and simulation effects.
Nice to have
- Experience training LLMs or foundation models on semiconductor design and verification corpora.
- Experience modeling design scaling laws, generating synthetic design data, or building evaluations tied to downstream design metrics.
Tools
LLMs, RTL, netlists, PDKs, GPUs
AI focus
Train and improve frontier models for semiconductor design and verification, including synthetic data generation, distillation, continual learning, and evaluations for automated chip development.
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