# Senior Silicon Engineer at Zettascale Computing

- Company: Zettascale Computing (YC S24)
- What the company does: Chips for frontier AI. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://zscc.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zettascale-computing/jobs/E3xe53H-senior-silicon-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zettascale-computing-senior-silicon-engineer/

## About the role

Be part of a small team building Zettascale Computing's silicon efforts from FPGA prototype through tapeout and bring-up. You will set technical direction across architecture, RTL, verification, tooling, and timing closure, build the silicon team as the company grows, and partner closely with the PCB, interconnects, racks and pods, and software teams.

## What they're looking for

- Strong digital design fundamentals, including RTL, pipelining, clocks, resets, latency, throughput, and clean microarchitecture
- Hands-on FPGA experience taking real designs from RTL to a working board
- Synthesizable SystemVerilog or Verilog you are proud of
- Fluency with simulation, linting, synthesis, SDC constraints, timing closure, and CDC
- Experience automating hardware flows with Python, Tcl, Make, Nix, or similar tools
- Comfort designing compute datapaths and memory systems around bandwidth and latency

Tags: Engineering