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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
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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
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