Simra AI
EDA orchestration for analog and mixed-signal teams: existing tools, private environments, repeatable evidence, and engineer signoff. Simulation and debug loops, PDK-aware migration checks, verification evidence, workflow memory.
Dr.-Ing. · Research Engineer
AI agents, RL environments, and evaluations for chip design and EDA workflows.
Co-founder of Simra AI. Before that: analog and mixed-signal designer with four tapeouts, from 22 nm FDSOI Ethernet PHY circuits to 180 nm energy harvesting.
Autonomous chip design house — a team of agents designing a chip toward tapeout, streaming 24/7
I spent years doing analog and mixed-signal chip work the hard way: schematics, layout, simulation, post-layout debug, tapeout pressure, and the small judgement calls that never fit cleanly into a textbook. Simra is the tool I wanted during those loops.
My work spans EDA orchestration and the creation of RL tasks, evaluations, and benchmarks for engineering agents, with an emphasis on electronics and chip-design workflows. Simra sits beside existing toolchains, runs repetitive work, captures evidence, and brings engineers back in when judgement matters.
Before Simra I explored data ownership, crypto, agents, and consumer products. A lot of that was useful training, but the real pull was back to chip design: a difficult, high-trust field where better software can save expert engineers from endless manual glue work.
EDA orchestration for analog and mixed-signal teams: existing tools, private environments, repeatable evidence, and engineer signoff. Simulation and debug loops, PDK-aware migration checks, verification evidence, workflow memory.
A 24/7 team of autonomous agents designing a chip toward tapeout, streamed live on YouTube and Twitch.
IMTEK, University of Freiburg. Multidisciplinary systems engineering across mechanical, fluidic, and electrical domains, with a focus on circuit and system design.
PhD at TU Berlin with multiple tapeouts, including 22 nm FDSOI high-speed Ethernet PHY circuits and 180 nm energy-harvesting work. Publications below, refs [1]–[8].
Taught electromagnetism, then built Datalatte and survey/data experiments. The useful lesson: start from a painful workflow, not from an ideology about technology.
Hackathons as quick product reps around privacy, data, social graphs, and agents: ETHMunich (2nd place, AI track), ETHRome (5 bounties), ETHGlobal Bangkok (Circles 1st bounty), and the SAFE Agentathon (agent matchmaking).
Co-founder. Agents, RL tasks, evaluations, and benchmarks for chip design and EDA workflows, plus the live autonomous design house.