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…

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Cognichip

ACIAI-firstArtificial IntelligenceChip DesignDeep TechGenerative AISemiconductorcognichip.ai

HQRedwood City, US

Team Size56

Open Jobs29

Total Funding$33M

Latest Fundraiselast year

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

Company Overview

Problem Domain

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

Founded

2024

Industry

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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”

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Staff LLMOps Engineer

On-SiteToronto, Ontario, CA

On-Site • Toronto, Ontario, CA

At Cognichip, we are building the next generation, enterprise product suite to empower semiconductor design engineers to achieve a 10x productivity boost with proprietary AI/ML models and modern cloud technologies.

We are seeking a Staff LLMOps Engineer to architect, deploy, and optimize our large language model (LLM) infrastructure on the cloud. This role focuses on taking trained models to production, scaling them efficiently across GPU clusters, and driving innovations in inference optimization. You will work closely with AI scientists, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure low-latency, high-throughput model serving for our enterprise SaaS product.

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Design and implement production-ready LLM deployment pipelines on AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.

Build and scale LLM inference infrastructure (multi-GPU, multi-node) for high availability, low latency, and cost efficiency.

Optimize inference performance using vLLM, SGLang, or similar frameworks.

Implement advanced serving techniques: continuous batching, speculative decoding, KV-cache management, paged attention, and distributed scheduling.

Collaborate with AI researchers to operationalize model training outputs into production-grade services.

Establish monitoring and observability for LLM serving: latency, throughput, GPU utilization, failure recovery.

Drive automation of infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and updates using IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.

Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure secure multi-tenant model hosting aligned with enterprise-grade requirements.

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in DevOps/AI infrastructure, with 2+ years focused on LLMOps (production deployment & optimization).
Proven track record of deploying and scaling LLMs in production environments.
Hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated inference and distributed AI serving.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and secure enterprise SaaS deployment.

Opportunity to own and scale LLM infrastructure at a disruptive AI startup.
Competitive compensation package, including equity participation.
A team of high-caliber collaborators at the intersection of AI, cloud, and semiconductor design.
A culture of innovation, precision, and impact, where your work directly shapes the future of engineering.

Cognichip

Cognichip

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Staff LLMOps Engineer

Startup jobs. A lot of them.

DevOps Engineer

Technical Writer

Technical Writer

Frontend Developer

Backend Developer

Data Scientist

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