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Senior Hardware Design Engineer

SambaNova · Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, United States · Austin, TX · San Jose, CA

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Infrastructureonsitesenior$120k–$200k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Design core units of the RDU chip powering rack-scale AI inference systems.
  • Own blocks from microarchitecture through tapeout to bring-up in silicon.
  • Build compute, memory and networking subsystems for dataflow AI workloads.

What they offer

  • Equity as part of total rewards package
  • 95% employee and 77% dependent medical coverage plus HSA with employer contribution
  • Dental, Vision, Disability, Life and AD&D insurance plus FSA options
  • Headspace subscription, Gympass+ membership, One Medical membership and EAP

Ideal candidate

A hands-on ASIC designer who loves owning blocks end-to-end, from spec to silicon. You thrive collaborating with architects and physical design while sweating PPA tradeoffs for high-performance AI hardware.

Requirements

  • Master's in Computer/Electrical Engineering with 3-5 years experience or Bachelor's with 5-7 years
  • Solid foundation in computer architecture and digital logic design
  • Strong SystemVerilog RTL design skills for high-speed, high-performance ASICs
  • Experience trading off Power, Performance, and Area (PPA)
  • Working knowledge of AXI, PCIe, Ethernet, HBM/DDR interconnects and protocols
  • Experience with digital logic synthesis tools and Static Timing Analysis (STA)
  • Ability to work onsite in San Jose, CA or Austin, TX

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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