Hardware/ Software Co-Design Engineer

Team Description: The Brain Interfaces Soc Department delivers chip architecture and silicon implementation of neural recording and stimulation system-on-chip (SoC) for high-bandwidth brain-machine interface applications. We have crafted a team of exceptional engineers whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the future. Job Description & Responsibilities: Our Hardware/ Software Co-Design Engineer will be responsible for delivering micro-architecture and register-transfer level (RTL) implementation of digital IPs and systems with a focus in high-throughput low-power digital signal processor (DSP) and general-purpose hardware accelerators towards realizing state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces. Relevant product development experience in micro-architecture design for low-power processors, on-chip bus and network interfaces, audio/video compression processors, AI/ML accelerators, and communication PHY/MAC will be preferred. Micro-architecture design and RTL implementation of: Low-power digital signal processors Low-power general-purpose hardware accelerators Low-power graphics processing units Low-power radio MAC/PHYLow-power serial link MAC/PHYDesign and optimization of hardware/software interface with firmware engineers Application-specific architecture optimization including: Complex system modeling for energy and performance benchmarks Workload analysis and modeling Energy/performance profiling and analysis Leveraging architecture-level design trade-offs with process technology and workload type Balancing cost and performance under manufacturing process variation Collaboration on silicon bring-up tests with verification engineers Required Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering Experience designing and implementing embedded software in C or Rust Expertise in SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python Experience designing and implementing emulation models, transactors, and test environments to replicate hardware behavior Experience working on complex digital systems from architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL, using industry standard toolsExperience in designing digital signal processing pipelines, from algorithm to RTL