Efficient is seeking a Senior Digital Design Engineer to join our growing team. The Senior Digital Design Engineer will contribute to the design, implementation, and verification of the world’s most energy-efficient, general-purpose processor.
This position is a unique opportunity to realize our product, work as a digital hardware designer with a highly interdisciplinary team, and help shape the future of Efficient’s technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and verify features from specification through synthesis
- Implement product features at the RTL-level targeting silicon implementation
- Implement product features at the RTL-level targeting FPGA emulation for verification
- Build unit testbench infrastructure to verify implemented features
- Design of memory systems and digital integration of memory macros, including SRAM, MRAM, and others
- Interface design components with external / vendor-provided IP
- Use industrial-strength digital design tools from RTL simulation through synthesis, which may include Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor / Siemens EDA, and ANSYS as necessary
- Provide comprehensive feature and integration documentation
- Interact with physical design and digital verification team for pre-silicon verification
- Work with physical design team to resolve RTL-level issues leading to DRC violations
- Work with compiler and embedded software teams to develop, document, and implement features that span across the software-hardware boundary, including Efficient’s dataflow ISA
Required Qualifications & Experience Requirements
- 7+ years of digital design experience with substantial experience designing for tape-out
- Experience running a digital design flow using industry-strength digital design and EDA tools
- Experience with designing and implementing features in RTL
- Experience integrating digital IP with RTL-level implementations
- Experience with pre-silicon verification
- Experience with continuous integration and testing of digital designs
- Experience with version control and scripting languages (Python preferred)
- Experience with memory compiler toolchains
- Strong attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills
- Good problem solving skills
Desired Qualifications & Experience Requirements
- Experience designing compilers
- Knowledge of computer architecture
- Knowledge of physical design and ASIC implementation
- Experience with power and energy modeling (using tools like PowerArtist, Joules, etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree in related field required. Master’s or PhD. preferred.
About Efficient :
Efficient is developing the world’s most energy-efficient general-purpose computer processor. Efficient’s patented technology uses 100x less energy than state of the art commercially available ultra-low-power processors and is programmable using standard high-level programming languages and AI / ML frameworks.
This level of efficiency makes perpetual, pervasive intelligence possible : run AI / ML continuously on a AA battery for 5-10 years.
Our platform’s unprecedented level of efficiency enables IoT devices to intelligently capture and curate first-party data to drive the next major computing revolution.
Efficient was established in 2022 as a spinout of Carnegie Mellon University and is currently building a world-class team of hardware and software engineers spanning from silicon implementation to compilers.
With pre-seed funding secured, a portfolio of patent-protected IP, and substantial progress on hardware and software development, Efficient is moving quickly toward delivering first silicon in early- to mid-2024.
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Working at Efficient :
We are a small, but mighty team, with team members spread across EffHQ in Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley, and New York City. We are a young company on a tremendous growth path.
We aim to bring our team together, in-person often and camaraderie is key to our success. We have the tools and technology to keep us together and interactive as a remote team, as well.
We are dedicated to our core values : Adventure, Teamliness, Excellence, Impact, Determination, Integrity. Our core values define who we are as people, as a team and as a company and they are prevalent throughout our meetings, interactions, and culture.
Efficient offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including 401K match, company-paid benefits, equity program, paid parental leave, flexibility, and more! We are committed to personal and professional development and strive to grow together as people and as a company.