Chips and semiconductors startups hiring now

Altera

San José, CR · Private Equity

Altera’s broad end-to-end portfolio includes FPGAs, CPLDs, software, IP, development tools and accelerated computing platforms that provide the flexibility and performance needed to accelerate innovation across industries.

180 open roles39% remote

TYLsemi

TYLsemi supplies chiplets for AI computing infrastructure. Its products provide connectivity, power and efficiency functions that customers integrate into advanced silicon systems.

52 open roles42% remote

Velaura AI

santa clara, US · Series C

Velaura AI develops ultra-low-power compute technology for cloud, edge, and physical AI applications.

42 open roles0% remote

Semidynamics

Strategic Investment

Semidynamics develops memory-centric AI infrastructure for large-scale inference. Its memory-centric architecture is designed to reduce bottlenecks.

29 open roles0% remote

Diamond Foundry

Diamond Foundry produces lab-grown single-crystal diamonds. Diamond Foundry provides diamond wafers and chiplets for thermal challenges in electronic chips.

23 open roles0% remote

Cornelis Networks

Cornelis Networks builds an open interconnect for AI clusters. Cornelis Networks ships the CN5000 Omni-Path family of switches.

20 open roles95% remote

OpenLight

Series A

OpenLight lets customers design photonic application-specific integrated circuits with its process design kit.

19 open roles0% remote

Crux AI

US · Debt Financing

Crux AI provides TPU-based AI compute as a service to organizations building and running AI workloads.

18 open roles0% remote

HyperLight

Cambridge, US · Series C

HyperLight develops high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs) powered by thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). The company offers a comprehensive suite of TFLN-based products and customized solutions spanning design, manufacturing, advanced testing, and integration.

13 open roles0% remote

Delos Data

Palo Alto, US · Series A

Delos Data builds AI interconnect for faster inference in large-scale AI data center clusters.

12 open roles30% remote

Frore Systems

Series D

Frore Systems develops advanced thermal technologies for data centers and edge devices. Its cooling technologies are integrated into products from major OEMs and system builders.

10 open roles0% remote

ChipAgents

alviso, US · Series A

ChipAgents develops AI agents for EDA workflows to boost RTL design, debugging, and verification productivity. Its platform transforms design intent and specifications into production-ready RTL, verification assets, and automated root-cause analysis.

10 open roles0% remote

QuantumDiamonds

Munich, DE

QuantumDiamonds develops and manufactures non-destructive inspection and metrology systems that use diamond-based quantum sensors to find electrical defects inside advanced semiconductor chips. Its flagship product, the QDm.1 (Quantum Diamond Microscope), is the world's first commercially available integrated quantum sensing tool for chip testing.

9 open roles

Extropic

Austin, US · Seed

Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware that is radically more energy efficient than GPUs.

9 open roles0% remote

General Compute

San Francisco, US · Debt Financing

General Compute provides an ASIC-first AI inference cloud for latency-sensitive agent workloads.

7 open roles0% remote

Anello Photonics

Santa Clara, US · Series B

Anello Photonics is a technology company developing a silicon photonic optical gyroscope to navigate, position, and motion track autonomous applications in challenging GPS-jammed and spoofed environments.

6 open roles

Mixx Technologies

Mixx Technologies solves the data movement bottleneck for AI infrastructure. Its HBxIO platform provides scale-up optical connectivity.

5 open roles0% remote

Silimate

San Francisco, US · Seed · YC S23

Fast, efficient agents for chip design and debug

2 open roles

Mindgrove Technologies

Chennai, IN · Series A

Mindgrove Technologies is a fabless semiconductor design company that builds high-performance and energy-efficient System-on-Chips (SoCs). Its products include the Secure IoT SoC and Vision SoC for applications such as IoT, Edge Computing, Vision Processing, Automotive, and Industrial Automation.

2 open roles

Innolume

Series C

Innolume fabricates semiconductor lasers. It develops customized photonic devices for customer requirements.

2 open roles

InCore Semiconductors

Chennai, IN

InCore Semiconductors is a RISC-V processor IP company that provides RISC-V processors and SoC IP, including specialized cores for fault-tolerant, security, and AI/ML applications. The company offers an all-in-one solution for SoC design through its RISC-V cores, reference SoC designs, and automated tools.

2 open roles

Source Foundry

1 open roles

Partcl

San Francisco, US · Seed · YC P25

Design a chip in minutes

1 open roles

Salad

Salad orchestrates the world's idle GPUs. Its cloud provides an orchestration layer for containers, tokens and GPUs.

1 open roles

Vorticity

Mountain View, US · Seed · YC S19

Vorticity is developing a new class of Scientific Processing Units (SPUs) to accelerate scientific computing. The company's custom software and hardware pair is designed to achieve compute speeds 10x, 100x, or 1,000x faster than existing solutions.

1 open roles

ChEmpower Corporation

Beaverton, US

ChEmpower is a venture-backed advanced materials and specialized chemistry startup developing abrasive-free planarization technology for the manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices. The company develops and supplies chemically reactive pads for planarization, offering an abrasive-free alternative to traditional polishing processes. ChEmpower has demonstrated an abrasive-free 300mm copper technology and a pilot line for pad production.

1 open roles

Phononic

Durham, US

Phononic develops solid-state thermoelectric cooling solutions for data centers, networking, and AI infrastructure. Its Thermal Fabric is a software-defined control layer that provides real-time thermal management and optimization across AI data centers.

1 open roles

Pseudolithic

Santa Barbara, US · Seed

The company offers product samples for mm-wave power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and T/R front-ends.

1 open roles

Qualcomm

San Diego, US · Post Ipo

Qualcomm designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services, including chipsets, modems, and RF systems.

1,962 open roles36% remote

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, US · Post Ipo

NVIDIA designs and manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units, and system-on-a-chip units for gaming, professional visualization, data center, and automotive markets.

1,918 open roles56% remote