We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and Felicis.
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We met you at ICCAD 2026, or you found us there. Either way, we’d like to keep the conversation going. This posting isn’t for a single role. It’s the best way to reach us if you stopped by our desk at the job fair, heard our intro on stage, or want to explore what working here would look like. Send us your resume and tell us where your interest sits, and we’ll make sure it reaches the right people. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
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Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence. Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVIDIA Ventures, we are a growing, fast-paced team where every hire shapes the work.
The company has unmatched talent density, including IMO, IPhO, and IOAA gold medalists, pioneers who made prior breakthroughs in chip design: AlphaChip (Nature 2021), ePlace (DAC Best Paper Nominee 2014), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), INSTA (DAC Best Paper 2025), and C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), chip leads for Apple Silicon (multiple generations of iPhone and iPad) and Google (TPU, OpenTitan), and top researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, and MIT.
We met you at ICCAD 2026, or you found us there. Either way, we’d like to keep the conversation going. This posting isn’t for a single role. It’s the best way to reach us if you stopped by our desk at the job fair, heard our intro on stage, or want to explore what working here would look like. Send us...
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