Senior ASIC RTL Design Engineer, AI Hardware
$200k - $290k • Remote • Sunnyvale, CA • FullTime
Posted 10d ago
About the job
Cerebras Systems is seeking a senior front-end design engineer to join the world-class team designing and developing the next generations of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE). This role involves deep expertise in RTL design and integration, focusing on high-performance, power-efficient, and scalable solutions. You will collaborate closely with verification, physical design, software, and system teams to bring innovative semiconductor architectures from concept to production, tackling the unique challenges of building WSE systems. The company's architecture enables industry-leading AI training and inference speeds, transforming AI applications and unlocking real-time iteration and agentic computation.
Responsibilities
- Drive all aspects of chip design, including functional specification, micro-architecture, RTL development, and synthesis.
- Collaborate with the physical design team to meet PPA goals.
- Work with design verification and DFT teams to achieve optimal functional and test coverage.
- Partner with software and system teams to understand opportunities for optimal performance and feature sets.
- Debug silicon-level functional, timing, and power issues during bring-up.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- 8+ years of experience in delivering complex, high-performance, high-quality RTL designs.
- Experience with front-end chip integration and third-party IP integration.
- Demonstrated experience in high-performance computing, GPU/CPU designs, machine learning, or related fields.
- Proven track record of multiple silicon successes.
- Experience collaborating with external vendors.
- Networking stack experience including TCP/IP, RDMA, and Ethernet.
- Knowledge of PCIe, CPU interfaces, and Serdes technology.
- Working knowledge of scripting tools like Python and TCL.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Job stability with startup vitality
- Simple, non-corporate work culture