Digital Design Engineer

About Xcelerium:
Xcelerium is a fabless semiconductor company established in 2020 by experienced team from Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom. Xcelerium develops silicon and software for sensor processing, communications and latency-sensitive AI applications. Working at Xcelerium will provide an opportunity to work on a complex development from the ground up and become familiar with cutting edge technologies such as RISC-V, digital signal processing, machine learning, many-core parallel processing using CUDA/OpenCL, inner workings of frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenGL, real-time operating systems and embedded In addition, the application domains will be 5G, UAVs/Drone, Robots, and Autonomous Vehicles which provide enormous scope for growth and making an impact.

Job Summary:
As an ASIC RTL Design Engineer, you will work on developing and implementing cutting-edge complex digital designs, SoCs, and industry-leading RISC-V cores. You will collaborate with the RTL design team, firmware team, and physical implementation team to optimize the design for performance, power efficiency, and area.

Key Responsibilities
Architect, design, and implement high-performance, low-power, and area-efficient digital designs for ASICs and SoCs using industry-standard EDA tools.
Microarchitecture development and specification. Ensure that knowledge is shared via great documentation and participation in a culture of collaborative design.
Work with physical implementation team to implement and optimize physical design to meet frequency, area, power goals.
Collaborate with performance modelling team for performance exploration and optimization to meet performance goals.

Technical Qualifications
Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering from a reputable institution
5+ years of relevant professional experience
Excellent understanding of logic design using hardware description languages like Verilog/SystemVerilog is required.
Familiarity with processor architecture, memory and cache subsystems, on-chip interconnects and network-on-chip technology
Familiarity with either UVM based verification flow
Familiarity with RTL to GDS design flow is required
Knowledge of RISC-V architectures is a strong plus
Strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, Chisel or assembly language is highly desirable
Experience with fixed point arithmetic and data path design is desirable
Other Requirements
Passion for learning new technologies
Taking pride in always producing high quality code and documentation
Excellent communication skills
Comfortable and willing to work with team members from different disciplines, different levels and across time-zones

Location: on-site in Irvine, CA
Alternate locations: Santa Clara, CA; San Diego, CA
Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
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