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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:40PM (#47979250)
Gen-Alpha Transistor | Member of Technical Staff (Silicon FDE) | Full-Time | Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area) | https://generation-alpha-transistor.com/

Generation Alpha Transistor (Gen-Alpha) is a San Francisco based start-up, building AI tools for chip designers. It's a space that’s gaining enormous momentum as demand for AI silicon keeps growing.

We’re looking for a Silicon Forward Deployed Engineer to join our rapidly growing team—an expert circuit designer who thrives at the intersection of deep technical work and real-world application. You’ll work side-by-side with customers, helping shape how advanced circuit design evolves in the AI era, and translating cutting-edge capabilities into tangible impact across their workflows. We are a small, highly technical team composed of PhD graduates from Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon, with deep experience from companies like Apple, Amazon, Synopsys, and Cadence.

If you are interested, please send your resume along with you some upcoming availability to [email protected]. If there is a potential fit, I can help get a call set up with you and one of our founding team members to talk more about the opportunity!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026) on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:31PM (#47221116)
Gen-Alpha Transistor | Member of Technical Staff (SW Generalist) | Full-Time | Onsite (San Francisco) | https://generation-alpha-transistor.com/

Generation Alpha Transistor (Gen-Alpha) is a San Francisco based start-up, building AI tools for chip designers. It's a space that’s gaining enormous momentum as demand for AI silicon keeps growing.

We’re looking for talented software engineers and language-agnostic developers to join our rapidly growing team, collaborating in-office with the founding engineers. We are a small, all-technical team with PhD grads from Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon with extensive tenure in companies like Apple, Amazon, Synopsys, and Cadence. This role will also have direct exposure with customers who are some of the world’s biggest and highest-impact semiconductor designers and fabs.

If you are interested, please send your resume along with you some upcoming availability to [email protected]. If there is a potential fit, I can help get a call set up with you and one of our founding engineers to talk more about the opportunity!