Electrical Engineer for AI Hardware Design

Join a leading Silicon Valley AI lab as an Electrical Engineering Expert, where your expertise in semiconductor design and tapeout will play a crucial role in advancing AI hardware initiatives. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects in a dynamic and innovative environment.

• Contribute expertise across Analog, Mixed-Signal, RFIC, ASIC, or Physical Design workflows.
• Review semiconductor architectures, implementation methodologies, and silicon design tradeoffs.
• Support tasks related to tapeout flows, verification, timing closure, and silicon validation.
• Assist in evaluating and improving AI systems trained on hardware engineering workflows.
• Provide technical insight based on real-world production silicon experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of chip blocks/systems through tapeout.
• Experience with advanced semiconductor PDKs such as TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, or Intel.
• Familiarity with pre- and post-silicon development flows.
• Strong understanding of schematic design, simulation, verification, DRC/LVS, parasitic extraction, and silicon bring-up.
• Prior experience in at least one of the following:
• Analog/Mixed-Signal Design (ADCs, PLLs, LDOs, SerDes, PMICs, sensor interfaces).
• RFIC Design (LNAs, mixers, transceivers, PLLs, PAs, mmWave systems).
• ASIC/Physical Design (RTL, synthesis, STA, floorplanning, CTS, PnR, ECO flows).

• Preferred Qualifications
• Production silicon experience preferred over purely academic or simulation-based work.
• Experience taping out RF designs at GHz/mmWave frequencies.
• Strong ability to explain architectural, power, performance, and timing tradeoffs made during implementation.
• Experience working on advanced-node semiconductor designs.
• Prior exposure to AI hardware, accelerators, or high-performance compute systems.

Estimated commitment: 15, 20 hours/week.

Approximately USD 100/hour.