# Applications Engineer - Silicon IP at Efficient Computer

- Company: Efficient Computer
- What the company does: Efficient Computer builds the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose AI chips, delivering up to 100× better efficiency than low-power CPUs. Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://www.efficient.computer/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Fransisco, Bay Area OR Pittsburgh, PA OR Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/efficientcomputer/jobs/4385243009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/efficient-computer-applications-engineer-silicon-ip/

## About the role

We’re looking for an Applications Engineer who will help customers successfully evaluate, integrate, verify, and physically implement our silicon IP in their SoCs. You’ll be the technical bridge between customers and our design, verification, physical design, and characterization teams—helping customers stand up verification environments, close coverage and timing, resolve integration issues, and keep tapeouts on schedule.

## What they're looking for

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers integrating our silicon IP, from RTL simulation and UVM testbench setup through synthesis, floorplanning, place-and-route, timing closure, and signoff
- Develop and maintain reference verification environments, example testbenches, implementation flows, floorplan guidance, and integration collateral—including SDC and UPF templates—that reduce customer ramp time
- Deliver onsite and remote technical training on IP architecture, verification methodology, verification IP usage, coverage closure, timing models, physical abstracts, and implementation best practices
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to aggregate field evidence, prioritize corrective work, and shape future capabilities, deliverables, and release content
- Support pre-sales technical evaluations by helping prospective customers assess IP quality, verification collateral, PPA, floorplan compatibility, node/process readiness, and integration effort
- Lead architecture-to-signoff reviews of customer integrations, identify implementation risks, and recommend corrective actions across configuration, verification, performance, timing, power, and area

Tags: Applications Engineering