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Silimate

The copilot for chip designers

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignArtificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsB2BEnterprise Software

What they do

Problem

Chip design teams need to create, iterate, and validate correct and optimized frontend silicon designs much faster than traditional workflows allow.

Solution

Silimate provides AI-native core tools and agent-driven workflows that act as a copilot to accelerate frontend chip design toward autonomous spec-to-design.

Who it's for

Fortune 500 companies and high-growth chip companies with frontend chip design teams.

Founders

Ann Wu
Founder

Co-founder & CEO of Silimate. Ann designed several generations of custom silicon at Apple, helped manage the inference ASIC programs at Meta, and developed product strategy & execution at an AI chip start-up.

Akash Levy
Founder

Co-founder & CTO of Silimate. Akash has a PhD from Stanford in Electrical Engineering, with technical expertise spanning EDA, AI, and cloud through his time at Synopsys, NVIDIA, and AWS. He has taped out 3 chips, published 14 papers on circuit design, and has two pending patents in the EDA space.

Open roles 4

Software Engineer + Customer Success
Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $140K - $220K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Chip/Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $140K - $220K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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ML Engineer
Mountain View, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $140K - $220K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Chip/EDA/Software Intern
Mountain View, CA, US · Internship · $5.2K - $7K / monthly
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