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Check out JITX (SC18), it's using AI to automate circuit design. They are using a relatively unknown Stanza language for their CAD system.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654865

[2]http://lbstanza.org/



I was about to shill!

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at JITX. The core technology is a programming language for designs. It's a low level language for describing schematics and circuit boards, the kicker is that it's fully parametric and embedded into a high level language, which is stanza. The pitch I would give is that we're trying to do for hardware what GCC or NodeJS did for software engineering - everyone is hand coding assembly and manually checking it, we're building a compiler and set of libraries for getting things right and doing it fast.

I wouldn't just call it AI to automate circuit board design. We're definitely working on it and hiring folks for the tough optimization problems, but a lot of what we do is allow engineers to encode their expertise as reusable software components. I would say we're language and algorithm designers first, married to hardware designers.

For example, one of the cooler projects we did early in the pandemic was a mechanical keyboard designer that takes the JSON output of Keyboard Layout Editor and compiled it into a working circuit board and generated enclosure. I have it sitting in my office right now.

I may be overly biased but it's an awesome place to work. There are tons of interesting problems and great people. We have hardware experts designing boards, coming up with checks (think unit tests for hardware to automate design review), software folks doing our front end (a language server, custom VS Code extension to view circuit boards in a text editor), component selection, automatic placement, topological routing, web front end and backend, interesting and challenging DevOps, even real world compiler engineering - you name it. Every week is like the best course you've taken in CS - there so much to learn.

We're well funded and hiring. Since I joined in 2019 we've more than tripled in size and hiring! And frankly there's not many people working on this crucial problem. My email is in my profile if this sounds interesting to anyone.


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