Cognichip

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 for chip design, aiming to fundamentally reshape its economics. The platform promises a 75% reduction in design effort, 50% faster completion, and elimination of excessive chip size and power. Cognichip addresses a critical bottleneck in hardware development, where chip design takes 3-5 years compared to rapid AI software innovation. Their approach is AI-first, physics-informed, human-centered, and built for speed, democratizing chip design and allowing chips to keep pace with software advancements. The company was founded by experts from Amazon, Google, Apple, Aquantia, and Synopsys, and has raised $33 million in seed funding from investors including Mayfield, Lux Capital, FPV, and Candou Ventures. Cognichip is leading the AI disruption in the legacy chip design industry.

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Cognichip

ACIAI-firstArtificial IntelligenceChip DesignDeep TechGenerative AISemiconductorcognichip.ai

HQRedwood City, US

Team Size56

Open Jobs16

Total Funding$33M

Latest Fundraise10 months ago

TL;DR

Core product: ACI® — a physics-informed foundation AI model for semiconductor chip design

Founded: 2024

Headquarters: Redwood City, California

Seed funding: $33M (May 2025)

Founding team: Faraj Aalaei, Ehsan Kamalinejad, Mehdi Daneshpanah, Simon Sabato

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Company Overview

Problem Domain

Semiconductor chip design — long, expensive hardware development cycles and suboptimal size/power tradeoffs.

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2024

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Funding Track Record

Seed- 2025-05-15

$33,000,000

Round included participation from FPV Ventures and Candou Ventures; disclosed when company emerged from stealth.

Investor Signal

“Led by institutional deep‑tech investors (Lux Capital and Mayfield) with participation from FPV Ventures and Candou Ventures”

Join the Team

Staff DevOps Engineer – Platform & Cloud Infrastructure

On-SiteToronto, Ontario, CA

On-Site • Toronto, Ontario, CA

At Cognichip, we are building the next-generation enterprise platform to empower semiconductor design engineers with a 10x productivity boost through AI-native workflows, scalable cloud infrastructure, and modern developer experiences.

We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer / Architect to lead the design, implementation, and operations of Cognichip’s cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting our multi-plane architecture and enabling enterprise-grade deployment models including SaaS, single-tenant, and self-hosted. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in early-stage environments, enjoys building secure and scalable systems from first principles, and can help shape Cognichip’s DevOps foundation for long-term velocity, reliability, and compliance.

Core Responsibilities

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Technical Writer

Part-timeUtrecht, NL

Part-time • Utrecht, NL

Machine Learning Engineer

InternshipLondon, GB

Internship • London, GB

DevOps Engineer

Full-timeBelgrade, RS

Full-time • Belgrade, RS

Product Designer

InternshipHamburg, DE

Internship • Hamburg, DE

Software Engineer

InternshipBerlin, DE

Internship • Berlin, DE

Software Engineer

InternshipNew York, US

Internship • New York, US

Architect and evolve Cognichip’s AWS infrastructure and deployment strategy for enterprise customers, ensuring scalability, reliability, and clear separation of concerns.

Own and advance our Infrastructure-as-Code foundation using Terraform, including repeatable multi-environment and multi-account patterns.

Design and operate Amazon EKS infrastructure, including cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and secure workload execution.

Build and maintain GitOps delivery workflows using ArgoCD, including configuration management and safe rollout/rollback.

Mature observability using Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and CloudWatch, including dashboards, alerting, and incident readiness.

Design secure IAM and access control models, including least-privilege policies and cross-account roles for internal and customer environments.

Partner with Security and Engineering leadership to support SOC 2, GDPR, and SSDLC through controls, auditability, and secure pipelines.

Drive production excellence through runbooks, on-call readiness, and continuous improvements in reliability, cost, and operational simplicity.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles, including ownership of production cloud systems.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including core building blocks such as VPC networking, IAM, EKS, load balancing, and storage.
Deep expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code design patterns (modules, environments, state management, and reusable architecture).
Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized production workloads, including operational debugging and cluster-level architecture decisions.
Experience building modern deployment systems using GitOps and/or CI/CD, and a strong understanding of safe release practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience operating multi-account AWS environments at scale (organizations, account vending patterns, cross-account access, environment standardization).
Experience supporting enterprise deployment models including s ingle-tenant SaaS and/or customer self-hosted deployments.
Experience with Argo ecosystem tools (ArgoCD best practices, app-of-apps patterns, progressive delivery strategies).

Opportunity to shape Cognichip’s platform foundation at the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, and semiconductor design workflows.
Competitive compensation package including equity.
Work alongside world-class engineers, scientists, and product builders.
A collaborative and fast-moving startup culture where your impact is direct and visible.

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Staff DevOps Engineer – Platform & Cloud Infrastructure

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