# Rust Software Engineering Intern, Chip Design Tools - Summer

About fab2 The fab2 team can build anything. We design all the hardware and software needed to make chips and we make the fabs, tools, and components ourselves. We're looking for exceptional, hands-on people who can iterate to the limits of what's possible. fab2 was founded by Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller. Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years. About the Team We are building the software that silicon chip designers should have had 20 years ago. Designing a chip today means stitching together a pile of desktop software, much of it decades old. We have a lot of respect for those tools, but in many ways they are behind. They've carried the industry this far, but we see enormous room to do better. For example: real version control, real collaboration, and interfaces that give you intuition rather than requiring it. We've concluded that we must build a lot of it from scratch. Studio is a fast, browser-based, multiplayer platform for designing and assembling whole chips. Figma plus GitHub, for silicon. The primary goal is simple: a user should never have to install anything or leave our app to take a c

- **Id**: 1309703
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fab2-rust-software-engineering-intern-chip-design-tools-summer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-05T16:52:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T10:59:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 70
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7418
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Semiconductor Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 2218927
- **Name**: fab2
- **Domain**: fab2.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fab2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 72
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 114000
- **Max**: 131000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 131000

## Technologies

- **Adobe Photoshop** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Axum** — Optional: no
- **Bevy** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **WebAssembly** — Optional: no
- **WebGPU** — Optional: no
- **Blender** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **KiCad** — Optional: yes
- **OpenGL** — Optional: yes
- **Protobuf** — Optional: yes
- **WebSockets** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 70

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T15:22:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 52; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 52 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 70
- **Expected fill days**: 72
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:late, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 131000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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