| Location | Berkeley, California |
Founding Member of Technical Staff - Hardware
Location: On-site, San Francisco, CA
Salary: $200k – $500k + 0.5–2.5% equity
Industry: AI, Cybersecurity, Hardware
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.
Architect FPGA/ASIC flow control systems for high-bandwidth AI data centers
Implement formal hardware verification to guarantee security under all attack scenarios
Integrate hardware with Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)
Engineer networking, routing, and integration solutions for complex data center environments
Design tamper-resistant hardware addressing thermal, electrical, and mechanical challenges
Lead customer discovery and prototyping; transition prototypes to production hardware securing hundreds of thousands of GPUs
Scale hardware security systems globally beyond year one
4+ years in FPGA/ASIC design or related hardware engineering, including startups or top-tier AI/hardware/security firms
Expertise in FPGA design, HDL, Verilog, digital circuits, and electrical engineering fundamentals
Experience with data center infrastructure, confidential computing, and embedded programming (C, Rust)
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar; PhD is a plus
Proven track record building 01 hardware products
Arista data center networking, Xilinx FPGAs, TEEs, confidential computing, Rust, formal verification
Join at inception and help shape the infrastructure for the AGI age
Operations and incorporation in both the US and UK, with ambitions for worldwide impact
Build the backbone for the most advanced AI and scientific workloads on the planet
Work on systems designed from scratch for AGI - not legacy retrofits
Early-stage, high-ownership roles with direct influence on technology and company direction
Early hires will have outsized impact and advancement opportunities as the company scales
$3M seed round closed June 2025; backed by leaders from Meta, Anthropic, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, and global data center strategy
$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.