# Founding AI Engineer at Bronco AI

- Company: Bronco AI
- What the company does: About Us The future will have more chips, in more varieties, for more applications than ever before. The current way of designing, testing, and manufacturing them can't keep up. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.bronco.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2024-08-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/bronco-ai/jobs/960be591-6a98-4129-ae6d-31614d0590a7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bronco-ai-founding-ai-engineer/

## About the role

As a Founding AI Engineer, you will own the core intelligence of Bronco's agents. That means designing the training pipelines, reward models, and evaluation harnesses that will make sure our agents actually succeed not just in benchmarks but on real production tapes.

## What they're looking for

- Design and implement post-training pipelines for domain-specific model behavior across DV tasks — testbench generation, bug triage, coverage closure
- Develop reinforcement learning setups, including reward modeling and RLHF/RLAIF pipelines, to improve agent decision-making on long-horizon verification tasks
- Build tool interfaces, scaffolding, and execution harnesses that allow models to interact reliably with EDA environments and RTL artifacts
- Iterate with silicon domain experts and customers to encode verification knowledge into training data, reward signals, and evals that measure real agent capability — not proxy metrics
- Stay current with frontier research in LLM reasoning, RL for agents, and tool use — and bring what's relevant into production

Tags: Engineering