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Partcl

Design a chip in minutes

Y CombinatorSpring 2025ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and Design

What they do

Problem

Design a chip in minutes

Founders

William Salcedo
Founder

CEO at Partcl. Previously at Nvidia, Stanford, and Cornell. I taped-out two chips from scratch as an undergrad and developed one of the earliest chips designed by LLMs. My research at Stanford included using AI techniques to verify circuits.

Vamshi Balanaga
Founder

CTO at Partcl. Previously built embedded ML models at Apple, laser weeding robots at Carbon Robotics, and warehouse automation robots at Fulfil Solutions. Built and launched multiple rockets while running the avionics team at Space Enterprise at Berkeley, Stanford EECS PhD (dropout), UC Berkeley Physics.

Open roles 2

Founding Engineer (Systems + ML)
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $130K - $300K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Backend EDA Compiler Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $130K - $300K · 0.10% - 1.00%
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