Principal ASIC Architect

The Opportunity:

The opportunity involves leading the architectural planning and definition of new Tensordyne AI processors, consisting of highly specialized floating point AI compute cores, embedded memory, embedded RISC-V CPU cores, and high-speed serial communications with chip-to-chip networking fabric, HBM, and PCIe connectivity.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the architectural planning and definition of new Tensordyne AI processors, that consist of highly specialized floating point AI compute cores, embedded memory, embedded RISC-V CPU cores, and high speed SerDes networking technologies for AI workloads.
• Analyze technical needs, propose chip design solutions, create detailed design specifications, lead architectural modeling and establish ASIC development milestones to ensure that the final product meets requirements related to functionality, inference performance, inference accuracy, power efficiency, programmability, debuggability and manufacturability.
• Work closely with external engineering partners, ASIC design engineers, ASIC design verification teams, SOC physical design teams, interdisciplinary software teams, product management and executives, providing technical guidance, overseeing design reviews and mentoring where applicable.
• Evaluate new silicon IP technologies, EDA tools and methodologies to enhance the product and improve the efficiency of our chip design process.

What You'll Bring:

• 15+ years of hands-on experience and deep expertise in silicon design engineering and architectural planning of high performance compute (HPC) processors like GPUs, CPUs, TPUs etc., as well as HBM and high speed SerDes networking technologies for AI workloads.
• A strong understanding of generative AI algorithms, attention mechanisms, foundation transformer models, and mapping these functions to hardware.
• Strong Verilog programming skills, and experience with RTL verification, and performance modeling.
• Experience with performance analysis, debugging, and optimization is also required.
• Track record of developing architectural C-models, SystemC, or TLM.
• Expert-level skills in C/C++, and scripting languages like Python or Perl for automation and modeling.
• Outstanding technical communication skills, with a talent for conveying complex concepts convincingly to a variety of audiences, from RTL programmers, to software architects and engineers, to managers and external engineering stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• An MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related engineering discipline.

Benefits:

Tensordyne supports its people with competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, flexibility, and recognition programs—because breakthrough technology starts with a healthy, empowered team.

Pay:

Competitive compensation package based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule:

Full-time position with flexible working hours.

Skills:

• Hands-on experience and deep expertise in silicon design engineering and architectural planning of high performance compute (HPC) processors like GPUs, CPUs, TPUs etc., as well as HBM and high speed SerDes networking technologies for AI workloads.
• Strong understanding of generative AI algorithms, attention mechanisms, foundation transformer models, and mapping these functions to hardware.
• Strong Verilog programming skills, and experience with RTL verification, and performance modeling.
• Experience with performance analysis, debugging, and optimization is also required.
• Track record of developing architectural C-models, SystemC, or TLM.
• Expert-level skills in C/C++, and scripting languages like Python or Perl for automation and modeling.
• Outstanding technical communication skills, with a talent for conveying complex concepts convincingly to a variety of audiences, from RTL programmers, to software architects and engineers, to managers and external engineering stakeholders.

Company Culture:

We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions. Our core values are Put people first, Ethics and integrity always, Think Big, Aim for excellence, Own it and get it done, Make each person better together, and Embrace each others’ differences.