Principal RTL Design Engineer
SambaNova · Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, United States · Austin, TX · San Jose, CA
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Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$180k–$255k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own microarchitecture and RTL for next-gen RDU AI accelerator.
- Take major compute, memory and network blocks from spec to tape-out.
- Build dataflow silicon for agentic AI, codegen and long-run apps.
What they offer
- Equity
- 95% employee medical coverage, 77% for dependents
- HSA with employer contribution
- Dental and vision coverage
- Short/long-term disability and life insurance
- FSA options
- Headspace subscription
- Gympass+ membership
- One Medical membership
- Employee Assistance Program
Ideal candidate
Seasoned ASIC owner who loves pushing frequency and PPA limits and guiding design decisions. You mentor others and sweat the details from spec through tape-out.
Requirements
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
- 7+ years of industry experience in ASIC RTL design
- Mastery of synthesizable SystemVerilog including SVA
- High-frequency design with datapath pipelining and retiming
- Strong foundation in computer architecture and digital logic design
- Ownership of complex block from spec through tape-out
- Experience converging power, performance and area with physical constraints
- Hands-on synthesis, STA, lint, CDC and LEC flows
- Technical leadership and mentoring without formal authority
- Scripting in Python for design and flow automation
Lab profile
About SambaNova
Full-stack AI infrastructure with RDU dataflow chips for fast agentic inference.
What they build
- RDU Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- SambaRack rack-scale hardware
- Full-stack AI inference platform
Known for
- Reconfigurable dataflow architecture alternative to GPUs
- High decode performance for agentic workloads
- Full-stack hardware-software co-design
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Palo Alto, California