# Silicon Engineer

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/859df12e-2128-4d1b-9a0d-dc0e2cc43cd2

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 320000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

Anthropic is building a custom silicon team to support their massive AI training and inference workloads, and seeks an experienced engineer to own end-to-end technical decisions across domains like design, verification, or physical implementation. This role suits someone who has shipped silicon before, can operate independently on a small founding team, and is comfortable making architecture calls and working with external partners.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Physical Design, SystemVerilog, Verilog

## Required

- Deep hands-on expertise in at least one silicon domain: front-end design, pre-silicon verification, physical design, design for test, analog and mixed-signal, technology and foundry, CAD infrastructure, or packaging and signal/power integrity
- Direct personal contribution to silicon that taped out and shipped with demonstrable ownership
- Fluency in adjacent silicon domains sufficient to reason about chip-level tradeoffs
- Experience partnering with external vendors including ASIC houses, IP vendors, foundries, and test partners
- Track record of owning directional technical decisions and their consequences
- Practical experience using AI coding tools and clear assessment of their effectiveness
- Strong written and verbal communication with experience driving cross-team alignment
- Ability to operate with high autonomy on a dynamic program with minimal scaffolding
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience

## Nice to have

- Experience on machine learning accelerators or high-performance compute designs
- Experience founding or joining an early-stage silicon team and building flows or tooling from scratch
- Familiarity with both partner-executed and fully in-house silicon programs
- Understanding of chip-package-system interface tradeoffs
- Hardware-software co-design experience working directly with compiler, kernel, or runtime teams
- Experience building or extending AI-assisted design, verification, or physical design flows
- Depth in memory subsystems, on-die interconnect, numerics, or low-power design

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5286348008