Staff Digital Design Engineer

We are hiring a Digital Design Engineer to help develop an ASIC for the next-generation artificial intelligence computing architecture alongside a team of world-class scientists and engineers. If your passion is innovation, solving challenging technical problems, and doing impactful work, you should join our team and help build the world's first optical computers!

In this job, you will work in close collaboration with computer architects, software engineers, verification engineers, and physical design engineers to design innovative compute accelerators that work with photonic technology to power the growing AI/ML workloads that customers want while keeping power low. This will be a great opportunity to define the next advance in computer architecture!

Responsibilities

• Develop microarchitecture design and RTL for advanced ML/AI accelerator ASICs/SoCs including advanced memory system and high-performance NoC.
• Understand and integrate silicon photonic communication and compute technology into digital accelerator design.
• Actively work with Architecture, Design Verification, Implementation, Photonic, Analog and Software teams to realize high performance, low power designs in advanced technology nodes.
• Create design specifications and documentation to facilitate collaboration with partner teams.
• Manage RTL implementation to achieve functionally correct, performant designs within project schedules by identifying, communicating and mitigating risks.

Qualifications

• 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or related fields)
• Expertise with high-speed digital design techniques
• Expertise with power-efficient digital design techniques
• Experience in ASIC design with multiple successful tape outs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communication protocols (e.g. PCIe)
• Experience interfacing with memory systems (e.g. HBM/DDR5)
• Knowledge of processor design, accelerators, and/or memory hierarchies
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms