Principal ASIC Design Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Establish ASIC design processes internal to Atom Computing by defining methodologies across architecture, RTL, verification, and tapeout.
• Support hiring and mentoring a small team of ASIC engineers as required to implement the products.
• Perform hands-on ASIC design including microarchitecture, RTL development, testing, and integration.
• Manage schedules and vendor interfaces by coordinating milestones, aligning with ASIC partners, and ensuring successful fabrication.
• Work closely with Atom Computing’s quantum physicists, optical engineers, hardware and software engineers to understand use cases and deliver hardware that addresses the needs.
• Manage the product roadmap and subsystem delivery schedules supporting both commercial and research projects.
• Participate in the design and development of current FPGA designs.
• Influence the FPGA design and development process to prepare for ASIC design.

Qualifications

• Have gone through 2 or more complete ASIC design cycles.
• Experience porting designs from FPGA prototypes to ASICs.
• Proficiency with RTL (SystemVerilog preferred).
• Experience in implementing large digital signal processing blocks in RTL.
• Working knowledge of performance and limitations of ASIC fabs, partners, and design nodes as well as FPGA capabilities to guide selection of best fit for our applications.
• Expertise in Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA design tools.
• Experience in mixed signal design.

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• 401K company matching.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Flexible spending account (FSA).
• Dependent care benefits.
• Life insurance.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is between $180,000 - $220,000, commensurate with experience.

Schedule

This role is required to be in the office in Boulder, CO or Austin, TX at least 3 days per week.