Head of AI

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Hiring Company: TenX Semi

One-liner: TenX Semi is reinventing how chips are designed to provide a seismic shift in the industry. The Head of AI will lead the AI engineering team, build core systems for generating and optimizing chip designs, and define the technical vision for AI systems.

Salary: $250K/yr - $400K/yr

Why Join Us:

• Build and improve AI that is redefining how next-generation chips are designed and verified while leveraging self-verifying-and-fixing loop using AI and formal methods.
• Founded by a Stanford University professor (Prof. Subhasish Mitra) and former Samsung EVP Suk Hwan Lim and a world-class team from Google, Meta, Apple, Broadcom, Stanford, Synopsys, well-funded with eight-figure backing raised from top-tier VCs.
• Work at the intersection of AI, formal verification, and chip design, one of the most technically challenging but rewarding problems in engineering.
• Join an early team with the opportunity to shape both the product and the future of AI-native chip design.

Role Responsibilities

• Set AI Technical Vision: Define the architecture and roadmap for our AI systems. You will make the critical decisions on model architecture, training strategy, and system design that determine our technical trajectory
• Build auto-pilot chip design systems: Lead development of LLMs that generate production-quality RTL. You will personally architect the systems that transform specifications into silicon-ready designs
• Develop optimization and design space exploration loop: Own the feedback system where verification results improve model efficacy. You will design the architecture that enables our AI to learn all the designs that are generated, fixed and optimized
• Lead Document Understanding: Build systems that parse architecture specs, design documents, and protocol definitions into structured representations our models can use
• Hire and Develop the Team: Build the AI engineering team to a large team over the next three years. You will recruit top talent, set technical standards, and mentor engineers
• Partner with Chip Design: Work closely with our chip design and verification engineers to ensure AI-generated designs meet production quality standards. You will bridge the gap between AI and hardware
• Drive Research Agenda: Identify and pursue research directions that advance our capabilities. You will keep us at the frontier of AI for hardware design

Qualifications

Required

• AI/ML Leadership: 8+ years of experience in ML/AI, with years of experience in leading teams. Shipped production AI systems that handle real-world complexity
• LLM Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with large language models—dataset creation, training, fine-tuning, and deployment. Understand transformer architectures, scaling laws, and the practical challenges of production LLM systems
• AI Agents and Code Generation: Worked on AI agents and code generation, program synthesis, or compiler systems
• Hands-on experience building AI agent systems and apps, with proficiency in Python and PyTorch
• Team Building: Hired and developed AI engineers. You can identify exceptional talent and create an environment where they do their best work
• Systems Thinking: Design systems that integrate models with infrastructure, data pipelines, and user workflows

Preferred

• Previous leadership role at a top AI labs or AI-focused startup
• Background in reinforcement learning, especially learning from feedback or verification and PPA signals
• Experience with document understanding, RAG systems, or structured information extraction
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field

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