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Senior RTL 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

  • Own RTL blocks for the RDU AI accelerator from microarchitecture through tape-out.
  • Carry designs through implementation, tape-out, and silicon bring-up.
  • Help advance rack-scale AI inference built on dataflow architecture, not GPUs.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Medical insurance with 95% employee and 77% dependent premium coverage
  • Health Savings Account with employer contribution
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Basic life, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Headspace subscription
  • Gympass+ membership
  • One Medical membership
  • Employee Assistance Program counseling

Ideal candidate

An experienced ASIC designer who loves owning blocks end-to-end, from architecture to silicon, and cares deeply about performance, efficiency, and building next-gen AI accelerators.

Requirements

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
  • 5+ years of experience in ASIC RTL design
  • Solid foundation in computer architecture and digital logic design
  • Strong SystemVerilog RTL design skills for high-speed, high-performance ASICs
  • Experience making design decisions that trade off power, performance, and area
  • Knowledge of interconnects and protocols including AXI, PCIe, Ethernet, and HBM or DDR
  • Experience with digital logic synthesis tools and static timing analysis
  • Proficiency with tools for linting, clock domain crossing, and logical equivalence checking
  • Experience implementing SystemVerilog Assertions to check design intent
  • Familiarity with tools and simulators for hardware performance analysis and tuning
  • Familiarity with Git for managing release cycles
  • Scripting skills in Python and Linux shell

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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