Engineering
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 growing, 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 Silicon (multiple generations of iPhone and iPad) and Google (TPU, OpenTitan), and top researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, and MIT.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Software Engineer at Ricursive, you’ll build the systems and infrastructure that power our chip design flow. You’ll work across the broader design stack, improving how we run, evaluate, and iterate on complex problems at scale. This includes building reliable execution infrastructure, developing tooling that connects different stages of the flow, and improving performance and scalability.
You’ll run against real designs with real constraints, debug issues that only emerge at scale, and make engineering tradeoffs around quality, runtime, robustness, and deadlines.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Develop and scale the infrastructure behind our chip design flow, optimizing for scalab