Founding Member of Technical Staff - Hardware

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, Deep Mind, Crowd Strike, 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 0→1 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, Deep Mind, Crowd Strike, 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.