Founding Member of Technical Staff - Hardware
Location: On-site, San Francisco, CA
Salary: $200k - $500k + 0.5-2.5% equity
Industry: AI, Cybersecurity, Hardware
What You'll DriveJoin the founding team building FPGA-based security switches for the world's largest AI data centers. Backed by a $3M seed round and top investors from Anthropic, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, and government advisors, you'll design hardware that protects AI model weights-critical digital assets-across facilities with 200,000+ GPUs. Your work will secure infrastructure vital to the global economy and AGI development.
What You'll Focus On- Architect FPGA/ASIC flow control systems for high-bandwidth AI data centers
- Implement formal hardware verification to guarantee security under all attack scenarios
- Integrate hardware with Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)
- Engineer networking, routing, and integration solutions for complex data center environments
- Design tamper-resistant hardware addressing thermal, electrical, and mechanical challenges
- Lead customer discovery and prototyping; transition prototypes to production hardware securing hundreds of thousands of GPUs
- Scale hardware security systems globally beyond year one
Who You Are- 4+ years in FPGA/ASIC design or related hardware engineering, including startups or top-tier AI/hardware/security firms
- Expertise in FPGA design, HDL, Verilog, digital circuits, and electrical engineering fundamentals
- Experience with data center infrastructure, confidential computing, and embedded programming (C, Rust)
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or similar; PhD is a plus
- Proven track record building 01 hardware products
Tech StackArista data center networking, Xilinx FPGAs, TEEs, confidential computing, Rust, formal verification
Why You'll Thrive Here- Join at inception and help shape the infrastructure for the AGI age
- Operations and incorporation in both the US and UK, with ambitions for worldwide impact
- Build the backbone for the most advanced AI and scientific workloads on the planet
- Work on systems designed from scratch for AGI - not legacy retrofits
- Early-stage, high-ownership roles with direct influence on technology and company direction
- Early hires will have outsized impact and advancement opportunities as the company scales
- $3M seed round closed June 2025; backed by leaders from Meta, Anthropic, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, and global data center strategy
- $200k-$500k salary plus 1-3% equity, with rapid growth and high-impact contracts
