
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…
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
Semiconductor chip design — long, expensive hardware development cycles and suboptimal size/power tradeoffs.
2024
DeepTech
$33,000,000
Round included participation from FPV Ventures and Candou Ventures; disclosed when company emerged from stealth.
“Led by institutional deep‑tech investors (Lux Capital and Mayfield) with participation from FPV Ventures and Candou Ventures”
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 an experienced logic design or verification engineer to join a growing Silicon AI team to develop AI-driven capabilities for silicon design and verification workflows and synthetic data engineering. You will join a team responsible for creating an AI engine capable of exhaustively designing and verifying the architecture and microarchitecture of various hardware IPs, as well as its integration into the larger SoC. We are looking for highly talented, passionate, and versatile engineers that can push hardware to highest performance and quality standards.
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