Senior Silicon Logical Design Engineer

About Us   

Axelera AI is not your regular deep-tech startup. We are creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us.

In just three years, we have raised a total of $120 million and have built a world-class team of 180+ employees (including 55+ PhDs with more than 40,000 citations), both remotely from 11 different countries and with offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

We have also launched our Metis™ AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, and have visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million.

Our unwavering commitment to innovation has firmly established us as a global industry pioneer. 

Are you up for the challenge?

Location 

We offer a flexible working arrangement, with options to:

• Work from one of our Axelera AI offices (Leuven in Belgium, Amsterdam and Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Zurich in Switzerland, Florence and Milan in Italy or Bristol in the United Kingdom) if you're already based in the vicinity.

• Work fully remotely from any European country (incl. the UK) you are already in.

• Relocate with us and work from Amsterdam or Eindhoven (Netherlands) or Florence (Italy). 

Position Overview 

We are seeking an adept Silicon Logical Design Engineer to augment our hardware design team at Axelera.AI. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in crafting sophisticated silicon solutions that underpin our AI-driven products. 

Responsibilities: 

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to elucidate and comprehend intricate design specifications and requirements. 

- Architect and implement advanced micro-architectures from high-level specifications for silicon components, meticulously adhering to performance, power, and area (PPA) metrics. 

- Employ industry-standard design tools and methodologies to fashion and optimize digital logic circuits. 

- Conduct block and system-level RTL coding, ensuring optimal performance, power, and area (PPA) metrics. 

- Integrate various IPs/Sub IPs into the top-level SoC. 

- Perform static checks (lint, cdc, equivalence checks) to enhance the quality of the RTL. 

- Automate tasks using scripting for efficiency gains. 

- Undertake comprehensive functional verification and collaborate closely with verification engineers to ensure the correctness of the design. 

- Actively engage in design reviews, contributing technical expertise to enhance overall design quality. 

- Work collaboratively with physical design engineers to address design-for-manufacturability (DFM) and design-for-test (DFT) considerations. 

Requirements: 

- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. 

- Extensive experience and proven expertise in silicon logical design, with a successful track record in RTL coding and synthesis, digital design, SoC, and integration of 3rd-party IPs (PCIe, LPDDR), with fluency in System Verilog. 

- Mastery of industry-standard Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for design and verification. 

- Deep understanding of intricate digital design principles, covering clock domain crossing, low-power design, and timing closure. 

- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, TCL) for automation and advanced tool scripting. 

- Experience with FPGA prototyping and emulation tools is highly advantageous. 

- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills. 

- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills. 

- Fluency in English. 

What we  offer   

This is your chance to shape and be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurances and the option to get company shares.  

An open culture that supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you. Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team. 

At Axelera AI, we wholeheartedly embrace equal opportunity and hold diversity in the highest regard. Our steadfast commitment is to cultivate a warm and inclusive environment that empowers and celebrates every member of our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to join us in shaping the future of AI.