Senior AI Processor RTL Architect

Heronic Technologies Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Heronic Technologies Limited in London, UK, seeks a Senior Digital Design Engineer to lead RTL development and help guide our AI accelerator architecture from concept to customer integration.

You will design and implement AI processor components, contribute to architecture roadmaps, and optimise existing RTL designs, balancing performance, power and area while collaborating closely with verification and software teams.

Qualifications

• Proficient with hardware design languages (HDL).
• Have taken designs through to silicon (customer-shipped a plus).
• Experience with ASIC and FPGA design.
• Experience implementing digital signal processing algorithms.
• Experience integrating accelerator cores into an SoC architecture (Arm, RISC-V).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Tcl).
• Comfortable with version control systems (Git) and open-source verification tools (Cocotb, Verilator).

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of AI processor architecture components.
• Contribute to the architecture roadmap.
• Optimise existing RTL designs.
• Expose design choices for performance, power and area trade-offs.
• Work closely with verification and software teams.
• Document RTL requirements and interfaces.

Skills

HDL design

ASIC/FPGA design

SoC integration

DSP algorithms

Arm/RISC-V

Python

Tcl

AI workloads

Tools

Git

Cocotb

Verilator

Job description

Heronic Technologies Limited in London, UK, seeks a Senior Digital Design Engineer to lead RTL development and help guide our AI accelerator architecture from concept to customer integration.

You will design and implement AI processor components, contribute to architecture roadmaps, and optimise existing RTL designs, balancing performance, power and area while collaborating closely with verification and software teams.