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Senior Front End Design Engineer

250k – 300kSunnyvale, CAHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

Senior RTL design engineer responsible for microarchitecture, RTL development, synthesis, and integration of high-performance wafer-scale AI chips. Requires 8+ years experience and expertise in networking and HPC.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Drive all aspects of chip design, including Functional Specification, Micro-architecture, RTL development, Synthesis.
  • Work closely with PD team members for design closure to meet PPA goals.
  • Work closely with Design verification and DFT teams for achieving the best functional and test coverage.
  • Work with software and system teams to understand opportunities to deliver optimal performance and feature set for the product.
  • Debug silicon-level functional, timing, and power issues during bring up.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
  • 8+ years of experience in delivering complex, high performance high quality RTL designs.
  • Experience with Front End Chip integration and third-party IP integration.
  • Demonstrated experience in networking, high-performance computing, machine learning or related fields.
  • Proven track record of multiple silicon success.
  • Experience collaborating with external vendors.
  • Networking stack experience including TCP/IP, RDMA and Ethernet.
  • Knowledge of PCIe, CPU interfaces and Serdes technology.
  • Working knowledge of scripting tools: Python, TCL.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with FPGA development toolchain, including Place and Route, Floor planning and Timing Analysis.
  • Experience managing external ASIC vendor through product development cycle.
Skills
RTL designMicroarchitectureFront-end chip integrationIP integrationPythonTCLTCP/IPRDMAEthernetPCIeSerDes
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