We're hiring
Build the tools chip engineers actually want to use.
We're a small team in Santa Clara working on one specific hard problem. If you have deep domain knowledge in hardware verification, ML on graph-structured data, or EDA infrastructure — and you prefer real problems over pitch-deck problems — we'd like to talk.
How we work
What it's actually like here.
What we value
What to expect
Team size
Four people right now. You'll be employee 5 or 6. Your decisions will be visible and consequential immediately.
Location
Santa Clara, CA is preferred for engineering roles — we have a small office and user visits happen in person. Remote is possible for the right candidate with semiconductor DV background.
Compensation
Competitive cash + meaningful equity. We don't hide the numbers — we'll share the full comp picture in the first conversation.
Interview process
Intro call (30 min) → technical conversation (60 min, no whiteboard, real problems) → meet the team (2 hours on-site or remote). Decision within 5 business days.
Open roles
Three positions open now.
Own the coverage gap prediction model: architecture, training pipeline, accuracy metrics, and evaluation framework. You'll work with RTL corpora, UCDB-annotated datasets, and graph-based representations of hardware design. Required: deep experience with GNNs or sequence models on structured data, Python, PyTorch. Bonus: prior exposure to hardware description languages or EDA toolchains.
Deep domain expertise in SystemVerilog DV, coverage methodology, and EDA tool integration. You'll validate Photoniq's recommendations against real tape-out RTL, own the customer integration experience, and contribute to the training data corpus. Required: 5+ years DV experience, proficiency with VCS or Questa, UCDB familiarity. Bonus: constrained-random testbench architecture experience.
Own the web platform, API, and CLI infrastructure. You'll work across the Python FastAPI backend, the React frontend, and the phnq CLI tool. Required: production experience with Python APIs and React, comfort with async systems and job queues. Bonus: prior experience building developer tooling or CLI applications.