Research Engineer - Mid-Training

Voltai, Inc

$100K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in semiconductor design and verification
  • Proven track record in training language models or foundation models
  • Strong understanding of design scaling laws and compute optimization
  • Experience in generating synthetic design data for hardware applications
  • Familiarity with evals that relate to design performance metrics

Responsibilities

  • Train AI models to specialize in semiconductor design and verification
  • Develop synthetic design data generation methods
  • Implement model distillation for efficient reinforcement learning
  • Collaborate with hardware engineers and RL researchers for design guidance
  • Build tools for enhanced model-driven design intelligence

Benefits

  • Work with a prestigious and experienced team including Olympiad medalists
  • Collaboration opportunities with industry leaders and top academia
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
  • Engagement in innovative projects at the forefront of AI and hardware
  • Strong backing from Silicon Valley investors
Full Job Description
Mid Training

You will train frontier models to become highly knowledgeable semiconductor design and verification experts that serve as the foundation for reinforcement learning and automated chip development. You will develop methods for generating and curating synthetic design data, performing model distillation, and enabling continual learning at scale. You will work closely with hardware engineers, RL researchers, and verification specialists to create evals that guide design data quality and model improvement. You will collaborate with compute engineers to scale efficient training across thousands of GPUs and RL environments. You will build high-performance tools to investigate how data and simulation shape model-driven design intelligence.

You might thrive in this role if you have experience with
  • Training LLMs or foundation models on semiconductor design and verification corpora (e.g., RTL, netlists, PDKs, simulation logs)
  • Modeling design scaling laws and optimizing compute budgets for chip-design-specific workloads
  • Generating large-scale synthetic design data (e.g., RTL variants, testbenches, verification traces)
  • Building evals that correlate with downstream design metrics (e.g., timing closure, power, area, verification coverage)

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