Silicon Engineer

Highlights

• Help build Anthropic's custom silicon team from the ground up.
• Drive chip strategy from spec to first-silicon bring-up and debug.
• Partner on hardware-software co-design for large AI workloads.

What they offer

• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space for collaboration

Ideal candidate

A silicon veteran who has shipped chips and thrives with autonomy. You make consequential architecture calls, stay pragmatic on schedules, and enjoy co-designing hardware with software teams while exploring AI-assisted design.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on expertise in at least one silicon domain
• Direct personal contribution to silicon that taped out and shipped
• Working fluency in adjacent domains to reason about chip-level tradeoffs
• Experience with external partners such as ASIC houses, IP vendors and foundries
• Track record of owning directional technical decisions and consequences
• Practical experience using AI coding tools in own work
• Clear written and verbal communication and cross-team alignment
• Comfort operating with high autonomy on dynamic program