Digital IC Design Engineer - Equity, Visa, Onsite (Berkeley)

Acceler8 Talent; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Dental insurance

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Digital IC Design Engineer to join an early-stage photonic computing company in Berkeley. The role covers RTL through tape-out, with hands-on work across RTL design, synthesis, place-and-route and silicon bring-up in a fast-paced startup environment.

This onsite position offers base salary from $180,000 plus equity and visa sponsorship. You will collaborate across architecture, design and verification teams to build a new computing platform for AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong RTL experience with Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Hands-on synthesis, timing analysis and physical implementation.
• Experience delivering a chip or large digital block to lab testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and integrate RTL for digital functions and interfaces (UART, SPI, SRAM).
• Run synthesis, static timing analysis, gate-level sim, and place-and-route.
• Work with process tech, standard-cell libs and physical constraints.
• Support tape-out, lab bring-up and post-silicon validation.
• Collaborate across architecture, design, verification and implementation.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Synthesis

Timing analysis

Physical implementation

Lab bring-up

Chip tape-out

Job description

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Digital IC Design Engineer to join an early-stage photonic computing company in Berkeley. The role covers RTL through tape-out, with hands-on work across RTL design, synthesis, place-and-route and silicon bring-up in a fast-paced startup environment.

This onsite position offers base salary from $180,000 plus equity and visa sponsorship. You will collaborate across architecture, design and verification teams to build a new computing platform for AI workloads.