Quadric
Senior Hardware Engineer - Micro-Architect
$150K–$220K
Burlingame, CA (HQ) · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of five years of CPU/GPU/ASIC front-end design.
- Education
- BS/MS or Ph.D. in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Quadric participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for U.S.-based roles.
About the job
Designs and implements processor microarchitecture and RTL, optimizes power, performance, and area, and supports timing closure across the chip design cycle.
What you'll do
- Define processor architecture and own microarchitecture definition and RTL implementation.
- Optimize power, performance, and area; contribute to timing closure through front end, back end, and tapeout.
- Own a major design block, debug across the software/hardware stack, and prepare designs for customer releases.
What they ask for
- BS/MS or Ph.D. in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- At least five years of CPU/GPU/ASIC front-end design experience.
- Proficiency in SystemC, SystemVerilog, or Verilog; knowledge of VCS & Verilog/C Co-Sim.
- Strong computer architecture background; knowledge of low-power digital design, data-parallel hardware design for high-performance computing, and logic synthesis and performance modeling.
Nice to have
- Experience marketing semiconductor IP, AI accelerators, SoCs, EDA tools, or developer platforms.
- Familiarity with automotive safety (ASIL) standards.
Pay
$150,000 to $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
SystemC, SystemVerilog, Verilog, VCS, Verilog/C Co-Sim
AI focus
Contributes to processor design for a programmable edge-AI architecture that supports neural network inference and conventional C++ code.
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