Founding Member of Technical Staff - Hardware

Founding Member of Technical Staff - Hardware

Location: On-site, San Francisco, CA
Salary: $200k – $500k + 0.5–2.5% equity
Industry: AI, Cybersecurity, Hardware

What You’ll Drive

Join the founding team building FPGA-based security switches for the world’s largest AI data centers. Backed by a $3M seed round and top investors from Anthropic, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, and government advisors, you’ll design hardware that protects AI model weights—critical digital assets—across facilities with 200,000+ GPUs. Your work will secure infrastructure vital to the global economy and AGI development.

What You’ll Focus On

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  Architect FPGA/ASIC flow control systems for high-bandwidth AI data centers

  
  


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  Implement formal hardware verification to guarantee security under all attack scenarios

  
  


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  Integrate hardware with Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)

  
  


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  Engineer networking, routing, and integration solutions for complex data center environments

  
  


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  Design tamper-resistant hardware addressing thermal, electrical, and mechanical challenges

  
  


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  Lead customer discovery and prototyping; transition prototypes to production hardware securing hundreds of thousands of GPUs

  
  


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  Scale hardware security systems globally beyond year one

  
  

Who You Are

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  4+ years in FPGA/ASIC design or related hardware engineering, including startups or top-tier AI/hardware/security firms

  
  


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  Expertise in FPGA design, HDL, Verilog, digital circuits, and electrical engineering fundamentals

  
  


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  Experience with data center infrastructure, confidential computing, and embedded programming (C, Rust)

  
  


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  Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar; PhD is a plus

  
  


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  Proven track record building 0→1 hardware products

  
  

Tech Stack

Arista data center networking, Xilinx FPGAs, TEEs, confidential computing, Rust, formal verification

Why You’ll Thrive Here

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  Join at inception and help shape the infrastructure for the AGI age

  
  


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  Operations and incorporation in both the US and UK, with ambitions for worldwide impact

  
  


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  Build the backbone for the most advanced AI and scientific workloads on the planet

  
  


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  Work on systems designed from scratch for AGI - not legacy retrofits

  
  


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  Early-stage, high-ownership roles with direct influence on technology and company direction

  
  


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  Early hires will have outsized impact and advancement opportunities as the company scales

  
  


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  $3M seed round closed June 2025; backed by leaders from Meta, Anthropic, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, and global data center strategy

  
  


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  $200k–$500k salary plus 1–3% equity, with rapid growth and high-impact contracts

  
  

Open to US Citizens, Green Card holders, and TN Visa holders only.