SiMa Technologies Careers

Location: San Jose, CA
Job AI2121

Job Description
As a Principal Engineer/Sr Principal Engineer - Hardware Design engineer, you will help develop the micro-architecture and design for SiMa.ai’s MLSoC™. Your responsibilities will include RTL coding, design and reviews, synthesis, static timing analysis, and coverage analysis. This means working very closely with the architecture team, verification team, and back-end team as well as cross-functional teams. The primary design target is an SoC ASIC, with machine learning being a key component.

Areas of Focus

• Design methodology, micro-architecture, RTL.
• Static timing analysis, verification/emulation support, back-end support, chip bringup.
• Work with the architecture team to develop the uArch and subsequently write the RTL.
• Develop the design methodology, starting with the machine learning architecture (MLA).
• Synthesis, static timing analysis, equivalence checking.
• Work with the back-end team on floorplanning and other PD-related activities.
• Work with the verification and emulation teams.
• Help with chip validation, bringup, and characterization.

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years professional experience as a hardware design engineer, SOC design engineer, hardware engineer, or related position.
• Experience must include SOC design methodology, micro-architecture, emulation and back-end development, and chip bringup.
• Experience must include developing ARM CPU based SoCs, Network-on-Chip and interfaces such as MIPI-CSI, Ethernet and PCIe.

Personal attributes:
Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative and good at solving problems. Execution and results-oriented. Self-driven, Thinks Big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.