Drimva

Neuralink

Digital IC Design Engineer

$116K–$234K

Austin, Texas, United States +3 · Full-time · Posted Jun 27, 2023

Location
Austin, Texas, United States
South San Francisco, California, United States
Austin - ATX1
Fremont, California, United States
Experience
5+ years of experience in digital design.
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Designs micro-architecture and RTL for low-power digital IPs and systems used in high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces.

What you'll do

  • Design micro-architecture and implement RTL for low-power DSPs, hardware accelerators, GPUs, and radio or serial-link MAC/PHY.
  • Model and optimize architectures for energy, performance, workloads, and manufacturing variation.
  • Optimize hardware/software interfaces and collaborate on silicon bring-up tests.

What they ask for

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience in digital design.
  • Expertise in SystemVerilog, C/C++, and Python; experience with complex digital systems from architecture through RTL and with DSP pipelines from algorithm to RTL.

Nice to have

  • Experience with architecture optimization for process technology; verification, physical design, or testing/debugging of complex digital systems.
  • Experience with SystemVerilog/SystemC/C++ modeling, tool-flow automation, embedded design, processor ISA, or compiler back-end design.

Pay

$116,000—$233,800 USD base salary

Tools

SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python, SystemC/C++

AI focus

Designs low-power general-purpose hardware accelerators; AI/ML accelerator experience is preferred.

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