Senior Design Engineer, ASIC

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world's highest performance automotive compute platforms.

In this hybrid role, you'll report to an ASIC Design Manager

You will:

• Work with researchers and architects to translate high level requirements into ASIC hardware features
• Specify, architect, and design interconnects and accelerators that process sensor data and other system compute workloads
• Collaborate with the physical design team on synthesis and timing closure of digital blocks.
• Perform power, area and performance trade-off analyses of digital designs
• Work with verification teams to guarantee functional correctness and performance
• Create and run software that tests digital designs in simulation and bringup

You have:

• BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of industry experience with Verilog and SystemVerilog, RTL digital microarchitecture
• Deep knowledge of computer architecture and on-chip communication networks
• Experience working cross-functionally with Software, Architecture, Design Verification, and validation teams
• Fluency in at least one high level programming language such as Python, C++
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill

We prefer:

• Master's or PhD degree in Engineering
• Experience leading or managing engineering teams
• Experience with the full digital design verification cycle -- from spec through bring-up
• Experience with High Level Synthesis (HLS)
• Experience with performance and power validation, and formal verification
• Working knowledge of machine learning algorithms & how they map to hardware

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