Founding Software Engineer

About Us

Bronco is an applied AI lab helping chipmakers keep Moore's law going. Our mission is to build AI silicon verification agents that find bugs, drive coverage, and help companies ship working chips on time.

We're currently deployed alongside verification teams at leading chip companies building next generation hardware (4 nm process node).

We are well-funded and backed by tier-1 investors, including YC, 8VC, Elad Gil, SV Angel, and Contrary Capital. We have also established strong relationships with the leading academic and industry researchers in the field of AI for chip design. Our advisors have won multiple Best Paper Awards at leading conferences, been cited tens of thousands of times, and received some of the highest honors in the microelectronics and EDA industries.

About the role

As a founding software engineer at Bronco AI, you will be building world-class intelligent reasoning systems for chip verification. You'll own the product from pushing the frontier of model capabilities to deploying onsite with our customers. In particular, you'll work closely with leading chip teams to improve their usage of the product and bring future capabilities to where they're most needed to deliver working chips on time.

The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who seeks to get closer to the cutting edge of AI and work in a high-ownership, high-velocity environment.

Who you are

• You put in the hours. You're ready to burn the midnight oil to make sure our customers succeed, come hell or high water.
• You run towards the fire. Startups are a series of miracles and you are a miracle worker. You solve problems before they pop up. You support the team wherever you're most needed.
• You learn incredibly quickly. You're an expert in multiple technical domains and you want to become an expert in a few more. You feel confident jumping headfirst into deep technical challenges, learning on the fly, and delivering results.

What you'll do

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What We Offer

If you're passionate about revolutionizing chip verification through AI and ready to make a significant impact in a well-funded startup environment, we want to hear from you!

The pay range for this role is :

150,000 - 200,000 USD per year (Bronco HQ)