Senior RTL Design Engineer (AI Accelerators)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States, or San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $120,000–$200,000 USD base salary per year

Company

Builds a full-stack generative AI platform spanning the SN40L AI accelerator chip, models, and cloud or on-premises deployment.

What you will do

• Design component units and own RTL blocks within Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit AI accelerator ASIC subsystems.
• Contribute to microarchitecture specifications and implement and debug high-performance SystemVerilog RTL.
• Carry designs through synthesis, implementation, tape-out, and silicon bring-up.
• Make power, performance, and area trade-offs for compute datapath, on-chip network, and memory subsystem designs.
• Collaborate with principal engineers, architects, design verification, and physical design teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of ASIC RTL design experience.
• Strong knowledge of computer architecture, digital logic design, and SystemVerilog RTL for high-speed ASICs.
• Experience with AXI, PCIe, Ethernet, HBM or DDR, synthesis, and static timing analysis.
• Proficiency with linting, clock domain crossing, logical equivalence checking, SystemVerilog Assertions, and hardware performance analysis tools.
• Python and Linux shell scripting skills, plus familiarity with Git.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Experience with a full ASIC development cycle through tape-out and production silicon.
• Knowledge of AI workload acceleration and low-power techniques such as clock gating and DVFS.
• Experience with emulation or FPGA prototyping for pre-silicon validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a full-stack generative AI platform and custom AI accelerator architecture.
• US-based full-time employment includes equity and comprehensive benefits.
• Medical insurance covers 95% of employee premiums and 77% of dependent premiums, with an employer-contributed HSA.
• Dental, vision, disability, life, AD&D, and flexible spending account options are available.
• Well-being benefits include Headspace, Gympass+, One Medical, and counseling services.