Cerebras

Lead RTL Design Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will design and develop next generations of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine. This involves driving chip design aspects, managing external ASIC vendors, and collaborating with design verification, physical design, software, and system teams.

What you will do

  • Drive all aspects of chip design, including Functional Specification, Micro-architecture, RTL development, Synthesis.
  • Managing external ASIC vendor through product development cycle.
  • Work closely with PD team members for design closure to meet PPA goals.
  • Work closely with Design verification and DFT teams for achieving the best functional and test coverage.
  • Work with software and system teams to understand opportunities to deliver optimal performance and feature set for the product.
  • Debug silicon-level functional, timing, and power issues during bring up.

Required qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
  • 8-15 years of experience in delivering complex, high performance high quality RTL designs.
  • Experience with Front End Chip integration and third-party IP integration.
  • Demonstrated experience in networking, high-performance computing, machine learning or related fields.
  • Proven track record of multiple silicon success.
  • Experience collaborating and managing external vendors.
  • Experience with designing/integrating high speed IO.
  • Networking stack experience including TCP/IP, RDMA and Ethernet.
  • Knowledge of PCIe, CPU interfaces and Serdes technology.
  • Working knowledge of scripting tools : Python, TCL.

Nice to have

  • Experience with FPGA development toolchain, including Place and Route, Floor planning and Timing Analysis

Benefits

  • Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
  • Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
  • Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
  • Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
  • Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.