Senior Digital IC Engineer Equity, Breakthrough AI Hardware

Acceler8 Talent; Berkeley, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent partners with an early-stage semiconductor startup in Berkeley, developing a novel AI computing platform by integrating photonics and silicon. This onsite role offers significant ownership of RTL and digital IC work within a small, highly technical team.

You will design RTL, drive digital implementation from RTL through synthesis and timing, assist silicon bring-up, and collaborate across architecture, photonics, packaging and physical design teams; join a team where breakthrough

Qualifications

• Experience designing production RTL for ASIC or SoC designs.
• Hands-on experience with synthesis, timing analysis, and digital implementation.
• Experience taking digital designs through tape-out and silicon bring-up.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end digital IC design flow.
• Builder's mindset with the ability to own problems across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Design RTL for next-generation AI hardware.
• Own digital implementation from RTL through synthesis, timing, and place & route.
• Bring silicon up in the lab and debug real hardware.
• Work closely with architecture, photonics, packaging, and physical design teams.
• Help scale the company's digital IC capability as it grows.

Skills

RTL Design

ASIC Design

Verilog / SystemVerilog

Digital IC Design

Synthesis

STA

Place & Route

Silicon Bring-up

Gate-Level Simulation

Advanced Process Nodes

Job description

Acceler8 Talent partners with an early-stage semiconductor startup in Berkeley, developing a novel AI computing platform by integrating photonics and silicon. This onsite role offers significant ownership of RTL and digital IC work within a small, highly technical team.

You will design RTL, drive digital implementation from RTL through synthesis and timing, assist silicon bring-up, and collaborate across architecture, photonics, packaging and physical design teams; join a team where breakthrough