Research Engineer - Mid-Training

The role

You will train frontier models to become semiconductor design and verification experts. You will develop methods for synthetic data generation, model distillation, and continual learning at scale.

What you will do

• Train frontier models to become semiconductor design and verification experts.
• Develop methods for generating and curating synthetic design data.
• Perform model distillation and enable continual learning at scale.
• Work with hardware engineers, RL researchers, and verification specialists to create evals.
• Collaborate with compute engineers to scale efficient training across thousands of GPUs and RL environments.
• Build high-performance tools to investigate how data and simulation shape model-driven design intelligence.

Nice to have

• Experience training LLMs or foundation models on semiconductor design and verification corpora (e.g., RTL, netlists, PDKs, simulation logs)
• Experience modeling design scaling laws and optimizing compute budgets for chip-design-specific workloads
• Experience generating large-scale synthetic design data (e.g., RTL variants, testbenches, verification traces)
• Experience building evals that correlate with downstream design metrics (e.g., timing closure, power, area, verification coverage)

About the company

Voltai is developing world models and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. The company is starting with understanding and building hardware, electronics systems and semiconductors.