Senior ALU Design Engineer

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Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Specify, design and implement new arithmetic operators for arithmetic RISC-V instructions, including floating-point, vector, crypto and integer operations.

• Optimize timing, area and power usage, or reduce latencies of existing operators

• Unit and formal testing for optimizations, writing new tests for new designs

• Work with the physical implementation team to optimize physical design to frequency, area, and power targets.

• Create documentation to a high standard and collaborate across teams and disciplines.

Requirements

• Masters or higher degree in electronic engineering or computer science with a strong mathematical background OR a degree in a related field with a strong background in code development

• 2+ years of RTL design or related design experience.

• Academic or professional experience with arithmetic RTL design or CPU RTL design in Chisel, Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL.

• Knowledge of at least one object-oriented or functional programming language and willingness to adopt Chisel hardware generator design

• Attention to detail and a focus on high-quality code and documentation.

• Ability to work well with others and share the belief that engineering is teamwork.

• This is a hybrid working position with 1 office day per week expected; more office days are possible if the successful candidate so prefers

Additional Information:

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