I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SiMa.ai (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
First contact was a recruiter reached out regarding a specific role. This was then followed by a chat with recruiter and then HM. Finally an on site with 5 members of the organization
This company really is Gen X cosplaying high tech corporate. They are Hardware company so we can give this a bit of a pass, however, with no real applied talent this company is not in a great shape.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at SiMa.ai in Jan 2026
Interview
I applied on their company careers site. Got shortlisted and the first round was scheduled in 10 days since I applied. The hiring manager, gone thru my resume and discussed the projects I listed. Couple of technical questions related to the project were asked and I answered them correctly. He sounded positive and hinted for next round. Then was completely ghosted for 2 months and got a rejection mail.
I applied online. I interviewed at SiMa.ai in Aug 2025
Interview
First round was an intro call with hiring manager to discuss skills listed on the resume.
The next round was related to ML Hardware implementations particularly how the convolution is implemented in accelerator.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Given an accelerator with no memory to store the previous layer activations, Can you reuse the convolution output of a particular patch of the image for the next convolution operation? If so how, if not why?
2) Is it possible to reduce the multiple convolutions into a single convolution operation to speed up the execution?