Job Description

Generation Alpha Transistor is an early stage startup bringing AI to chip design. Founded this year by a team of UC Berkeley PhDs with deep expertise across software, semiconductors, ML and AI, and well-funded by silicon valley’s best investors and the US Chips Act.

We’re in a silicon renaissance, fueled by demand for AI and the end of Moore’s Law. NVDA going to infinity is barely the start of the first inning. There’s only one problem: designing all those new chips. At nanometer scales this has grown exponentially more complex, costly, and laborious. GenAlpha brings the power of AI to automate their most painful bottlenecks.

GenAlpha founding engineers will work in a dynamic & high-growth environment, directly with our founders and customers, including some of the world’s biggest & highest-impact semiconductor designers & fabs.

  • Develop AI agents for novel chip design problems
  • Experience with LLM-based systems & agents, LLM encodings, foundation models, ML systems, fine-tuning, RAG, GraphRAG all pluses
  • Develop automated methods to extract structured data from diverse sources including documents & images
  • Test & characterize natural language AI systems
  • Requires proficiency with one or more of Python, TypeScript, C++, Rust
  • Bonus points for high-performance front-end or GUI development experience, and for silicon EDA experience. (Don’t worry if you never heard of that last one.)

We value software generalists & polyglots who are unafraid to try & learn new & valuable tools, wherever they can be found. Past experience in cloud-native B2B and customer-facing engineering roles is a plus. Desire to grow into engineering leadership is a plus. Desire to work in a rapidly changing, early stage startup environment is a must.