Principal RTL Design Engineer

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

7+ years of industry experience in ASIC RTL design

Mastery of synthesizable SystemVerilog for high-speed, high-performance ASICs, including SVA to capture design intent

High-frequency design experience, including datapath pipelining, retiming, critical-path restructuring, and other microarchitectural techniques for hitting aggressive frequency targets

Deep foundation in computer architecture and digital logic design, including arbitration, flow control, clock domain crossing, and memory structures

Ownership of a complex block or subsystem from microarchitecture specification through tape-out on at least one production ASIC

Experience converging power, performance, and area against real physical constraints, including floorplan, congestion, and timing feedback from the physical design team

Hands-on experience with synthesis and static timing analysis, and with lint, CDC, and LEC quality flows

Demonstrated technical leadership without formal authority, including setting direction in design reviews, arbitrating microarchitecture decisions, and mentoring engineers

Scripting in Python for design and flow automation

M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Depth in one RDU domain: compute and dataflow datapath, on-chip network and interconnect, or memory subsystem

Industry-standard interconnects and protocols including AXI, PCIe, Ethernet, and HBM or DDR

AI and ML workload acceleration techniques, and dataflow or reconfigurable architectures

Formal property checking applied to design intent

Advanced TSMC nodes and multi-die or chiplet design

Performance modeling and analysis to support architectural trade-offs

Fluency with Claude or other AI tools applied to RTL design and flow development

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Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.