Ricursive at DAC 2026 — Introduce Yourself
Explore opportunities at Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI Lab focused on self-improving systems and chip design.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, seniority, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
At Ricursive Intelligence, team members engage in cutting-edge AI research and development, particularly in chip design and self-improving systems. The role requires expertise in areas such as LLM modeling, architecture design, and physical design, with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience in advanced AI technologies. This position is ideal for professionals with a solid background in AI and hardware development, particularly those who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. The company is backed by significant funding and is known for its impactful contributions to the field, making it an exciting place for ambitious talent.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Ricursive Intelligence's career page.
- Ricursive Intelligence has 12 other open roles including Software Engineer, Chip Design, Chip Design Engineer, LLM Infra Engineer.
- 5144 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 6 active physical design roles on Joblaze right now.
- 5 active Synthesis roles on Joblaze right now.
- Typical AI/ML salary we track runs $140,000–$231,000 (median $180,000, across 2237 roles). See AI/ML salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Ricursive at DAC 2026 — Introduce Yourself role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in Palo Alto.
- Where is the role based?
- Ricursive Intelligence is hiring for this position in Palo Alto.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, LLM infrastructure, LLM modeling, RTL design, Synthesis, architecture design.
From the original posting
Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence. Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVIDIA Ventures, we are a small and fast-paced team where every hire shapes the work.
The company has unmatched talent density, including IMO, IPHO, and IOAA gold medalists, pioneers who made prior breakthroughs in chip design: AlphaChip (Nature 2021), ePlace (DAC Best Paper Nominee 2014), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), INSTA (DAC Best Paper 2025), and C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), chip leads for Apple (iPhone, iPad, M1) and Google (TPU, OpenTitan), and top researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, and MIT.
We met you at DAC 2026 or you found us there. Either way, we'd like to keep the conversation going. This is not a posting for a single role. It's the best way to reach us if you talked with our team at Booth 1049, saw one of our talks, or simply want to explore what working here would look like. Send us your resume and tell us where your interest sits, and we'll make sure it gets to the right people.
Areas we're hiring across:
LLM modeling, training, and scaling research
LLM infrastructure, training and inference at scale
Architecture design
Design verification
Physical Design
RTL design
Synthesis, physical design, sign-off
These are the areas we're hiring across today. If your work sits somewhere nearby, tell us where.
We are the team behind AlphaChip (Nature 2021), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), INSTA (DAC Best Paper 2025), and C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), with hands-on experience developing Gemini, Claude, Grok, and TPUs. Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVentures.
We're a small team, on-site in Palo Alto, where every hire shapes the work.