Digital IC Design Engineer Intern

Job Description and Responsibilities

We are looking for experienced and hands-on engineers with a creative and initiative mindset, who are interested in exploring the next-generation chip design with advanced architectures and hardware accelerators with a goal of enhancing the energy efficiency, information entropy, and scalability of our wireless brain-computer interfaces towards the physical limit of silicon technology. The ideal candidates are energetic people who get excited about building things, are highly analytical, and enjoy tackling new problems. You will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with chip designers, electrical engineers, algorithms engineers, and software engineers on a small, agile team.

• Micro-architecture design and RTL implementation of:
  • Low-power digital signal processors
  • Low-power general-purpose hardware accelerators
  • Low-power graphics processing units
  • Low-power radio MAC/PHY
  • Low-power serial link MAC/PHY
• Design and implementation of hardware/software interface with firmware engineers
• Application-specific architecture optimization including:
  • Complex system modeling for energy and performance benchmarks
  • Workload analysis and modeling
  • Leveraging architecture-level design trade-offs with process technology and workload type
  • Balancing energy efficiency and performance under manufacturing process variation
• Complex system-on-chip verification
• Behavioral level modeling and model equivalence check
• FPGA emulation
• Collaboration on silicon bring-up tests with silicon validation engineers

Required Qualifications

• Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering
• 2+ years of experience in digital design
• Proficient in SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python
• Experience working on complex digital systems from architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL, using industry standard tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in architecture optimization with process technology customization
• Experience in the verification of complex digital systems, using industry standard tools
• Experience in the physical design of complex digital systems, using industry standard tools
• Experience testing and debugging digital system-on-a-chips
• Functional modeling experience and logic verification with SystemVerilog, SystemC/C++, or UVM
• Experience automating tool flows
• Experience with embedded design
• Experience in processor instruction set architecture design
• Experience in compiler back-end design and customization
• Experience designing PCBs or writing firmware

What We Offer

• Full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.
• An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields
• Growth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan
• Paid holidays
• Commuter benefits
• Meals provided
• Equity (RSUs)
• 401(k) plan
• Parental leave
• Flexible time off