Hardware Application Engineer

Palo Alto Office Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

About this Role
You’ll collaborate with customers and partners to integrate Voltai’s hardware and design systems into their workflows. You’ll provide deep technical support, debug complex issues across software and hardware boundaries, and translate customer requirements into feedback for design and product teams.

You might thrive if you have 5+ years of experience in

  • Hardware design, simulation, or EDA tools

  • Customer support, debug, and design validation

  • Schematic review, board-level analysis, and failure investigation

  • Communicating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely

About this role

Summary

Provide technical support, debug hardware/software issues, and collaborate on system integration.

Job title

Hardware Application Engineer

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

hardware

Location requirements

Palo Alto office, on-site with possible remote options.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

hardware designsimulationEDA toolscustomer supportdebugdesign validationschematic reviewboard-level analysis

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

hardware designsimulationEDA toolsdebuggingfailure investigation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site