AI Silicon, Junior Digital Design Engineer

The role

You will drive invention, prototyping, and validation of core components for a novel computing platform. This role involves SoC design, RTL implementation, synthesis, and design verification.

What you will do

• Contribute to micro-architecture definition and integration of digital blocks
• Assist in the integration of third-party IP into the main SoC fabric
• Write clean, synthesizable, and high-performance Verilog/SystemVerilog code
• Perform hands-on RTL design for SoC blocks and digital interfaces
• Implement and debug key digital interfaces
• Implement advanced techniques for low-power design
• Perform initial synthesis and formal verification
• Create block-level timing constraints
• Run and resolve RTL linting, Clock Domain Crossing (CDC), and Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) checks
• Participate in block-level verification plan and help develop a verification environment

Required qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of industry experience in digital ASIC/SoC design
• Expertise in Verilog RTL coding and digital design fundamentals
• Familiarity with standard EDA tools for simulation, assertions, synthesis, linting, and clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis
• Understanding of the full ASIC design flow, from specification to tape-out
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with design constraints or architectures related to Machine Learning/Neural Network accelerators
• Experience with UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) environments for basic debugging
• Knowledge of formal verification techniques
• Exposure to post-silicon bring-up and lab debugging using logic analyzers or oscilloscopes
• Experience with modern design methods, including generative AI code development platforms
• Experience integrating large analog mixed-signal blocks into larger subsystems

Benefits

• Best-in-class health benefits
• 401k matching
• Truly unlimited PTO
• Complimentary meals in our Palo Alto office

About the company

Unconventional is rethinking computing to build a new foundation for AI that is 1000x more efficient by exploiting the physics of semiconductors.