
Cognichip is an AI-first company revolutionizing semiconductor design with its Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI)® platform. ACI® is the world's first physics-informed foundation AI model tailored…

Cognichip is an AI-first company revolutionizing semiconductor design with its Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI)® platform. ACI® is the world's first physics-informed foundation AI model tailored…
Founded: 2024
Mission: Use AI (ACI®) to radically speed and reduce effort in chip design
Total disclosed funding: $93M
Recent round: $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures (Apr 1, 2026)
Headcount (reported): 73
Semiconductor chip design automation and optimization using generative and physics-informed AI.
2024
DeepTech
$33M
Emergence from stealth with $33M seed
$60M
Participation from Lip-Bu Tan; Umesh Padval (Seligman) and Lip-Bu Tan join board
“Includes venture firms with domain-focused deep-tech investors and participation from industry executive Lip-Bu Tan”
We’re hiring teammates at the intersection of AI/ML and chip design—people who love building, move fast, and care about doing excellent work.
About the role
You’ll work at the boundary between our AI and hardware efforts to build systems that make chip design workflows better.
You will:
· Build and iterate on data generation (including synthetic data) for chip-design tasks
· Train ML models
· Design robust methodology
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· Integrate with hardware workflows
· Collaborate closely with engineers across AI + hardware + software, and own projects end-to-end
Locations: Bay Area (US) and Toronto (Canada)
Work style: In-person (both offices have a vibrant, builder-heavy culture)
About you
You have baseline knowledge in both domains :
AI/ML: familiarity with deep learning + data/model development
Chip design: basic understanding of circuit design and SystemVerilog implementations
And you have deep strength in at least one of:
· Data pipelines / data engineering
· Reinforcement learning (RL)
· UVM
· Formal verification
· SystemVerilog (advanced)
You’re collaborative, take initiative, and can lead when needed.
We care that you’ve shown you can do exceptional work. Examples:
· You built a product or system that people used
· You made major contributions to a respected codebase / repo
· You’ve done meaningful work in a high-performing environment (such as top companies)
· You shipped a standout project end-to-end
· You have strong publications—or similarly rigorous proof of ability
· Or anything else that clearly demonstrates you can execute at a very high level
We love building. We want people who are passionate about their craft.
We value a talent-to-ego ratio > 1.
About us
You’ll join a highly collaborative team working on a difficult, exciting problem. Collectively, our team has:
· Founded startups and scaled them to IPO
· Led development of products used by millions
· Earned 23,000+ scientific citations
· Held leadership roles at places like Google, NVIDIA, Amazon, Synopsys, and more
· Won medals in international science Olympiads
If you’re excited to tackle hard problems and build real systems, let’s connect.