Principal ASIC Design Engineer
Boulder, Texas, United States of America
Full Time
3 weeks ago
$180,000 - $220,000 USD
No Visa Sponsorship
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the development of critical technologies that power our neutral-atom quantum computers.
- Own the end-to-end design strategy—from requirements definition through silicon bring-up.
- Drive critical trade-off decisions across performance, power, area, and system integration.
- Provide strategic guidance to executive stakeholders.
- Shape our long-term silicon roadmap and define our internal design methodologies.
- Collaborate with a world-class group of physicists and engineers to translate quantum gate requirements into production-ready silicon.
- Manage the product roadmap and subsystem delivery schedules for both commercial and research projects.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of post-degree experience in hardware engineering, specifically in ASIC/SoC environments.
- Have gone through 2 or more complete ASIC design cycles.
- Experience porting designs from FPGA prototypes to ASICs
- Proficiency with RTL (SystemVerilog preferred)
- Experience in implementing large digital signal processing blocks in RTL
- Working knowledge of performance and limitations of ASIC fabs, partners, and design nodes as well as FPGA capabilities to guide selection of best fit for our applications
- Knowledge of Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA design tools
- Expertise in FPGA, microprocessor, and related digital circuit design and functions
- Mixed signal design experience is a plus.
Benefits
- fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for our employees and their dependents.
- unlimited paid time off
- 401K company matching
- short
- and long-term disability
- FSA
- dependent care benefits
- life insurance
- drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches in our offices, every day!