Quadric
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$66M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
Series C
Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
4
Silicon Catalyst, Pear VC
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 13
Raised a round Series C · led by IFC
Jan 19
Raised a round Series C $30M · EE Times
May 16, 2022
New executive Quadric Appoints Former ARM Vice President Steve Roddy as Chief Marketing Officer and Accelerates the Licensing of Its GPNPU Architecture · businesswire.com
Mar 16, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $21M · Venturebeat
May 20, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $15M · TechCrunch
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 9%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Jul 2026 | — | IFC lead | morningstar.com |
| Series C | Jan 2026 | $30M | — | EE Times |
| Venture round | Mar 2022 | $21M | — | Venturebeat |
| Venture round | May 2019 | $15M | — | TechCrunch |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Silicon Catalyst 
Pear VC 
Cota Capital 
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How Quadric hires
Truth index
B 84/100
Median time to fill
252 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
43%
Reposted roles
0%
Quadric scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 43% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 252 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Quadric develops a general purpose neural processing unit architecture that is licensed as intellectual property. Its Chimera cores run both classical code and machine learning kernels for inference in edge, endpoint and automotive devices, serving system on chip designers. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, United States.
News
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Teaching AI Agents to Speak Hardware
AI agents hallucinate when they hit domain-specific silicon knowledge like the Chimera GPNPU. We built an MCP server to address that. Here's what we've learned about where MCP works well and where it gets complicated.
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Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference - and it's paying off
Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.
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Quadric Raises Series C For Programmable NPU IP
Former chip startup Quadric, now an AI IP supplier, has raised a $30 million Series C to rapidly expand its headcount
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Quadric SDK adopted by Tier IV for Autoware
Tier IV has licensed Quadric's Chimera AI processor SDK to evaluate and optimise future versions of its Autoware software
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Joachim Kunkel Joins Quadric Board of Directors
Design And Reuse - Catalog of IP Cores and Silicon on Chip solutions for IoT, Automotive, Security, RISC-V, AI, ... and Asic Design Platforms and Resources
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That's Not A DSP!
Rapid innovation in transformer networks has rendered the simple offload NPU obsolete.
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Silicon 100: Startups to Watch in 2025
EE Times' 25th revision of the Silicon 100, our annual list of promising electronics and semiconductor startups, is now available!
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Quadric and Denso Team Up to Progress Automotive AI Semiconductors for 2025
The automotive industry will benefit significantly from strategic partnerships in artificial intelligence (AI) and its use in cars. AI integration into automobiles is projected to improve considerably - News
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Quadric over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Python
Assembly
SystemVerilog
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA
Triton
React.js
UVM
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Unix
AI & ML
LLM
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$230k – $270k
Open positions
5
5
Jobs
Senior
40%
Staff
20%
Architect
40%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $240k | $230k – $250k |
| Staff | 1 | $270k | $270k |
| Architect | 2 | $260k | $250k – $270k |
Highest paying role
Senior Hardware Engineer - Micro-Architect
$270k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Quadric
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
7
1 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
252 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~8 hours
10/23/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
50% ▼
Backend
25% ▲
Marketing
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Burlingame
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Burlingame
United States
HQ
270 East Ln
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $257k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Marketing
270 East Ln, Burlingame, CA 94010 USA
Pune
India
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
Jobs
$175k – $230k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • 5+ years exp
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Edge AI
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≈ $18k – $46k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Pune
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
Edge AI
Web3
Bitcoin
Chips/EDA
UVM
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$200k – $250k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Burlingame
C++
Cursor
Claude Code
Quantization
AI Agents
Machine Learning
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≈ $24k – $55k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
C++
Computer Vision
MLIR
Apache TVM
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Web3
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$110k – $270k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
C++
Computer Vision
Apache TVM
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Web3
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$110k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Burlingame
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
SystemC
Machine Learning
Web3
Bitcoin
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