What are the responsibilities and job description for the Digital IC Design Engineer position at Neuralink?
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 Digital IC 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 DSP, general-purpose hardware accelerators, and communication MAC/PHY towards realizing state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces
- Design and optimization of hardware/software interface with firmware engineers
- Collaboration on silicon bring-up tests with verification engineers
Required Qualifications:
- Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering
- 5 years of experience in digital design
- Expertise in SystemVerilog, C/C , Python
- Experience working on complex digital systems from architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL, using industry-standard tools
- Experience in designing digital signal processing pipelines, from algorithm to RTL
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the verification of complex digital systems, using industry-standard tools
- Experience in the physical design of complex digital systems, using industry-standard tools
- Experience testing and debugging digital system-on-a-chips
- Functional modeling experience and logic verification with SystemVerilog, SystemC/C
- Experience automating tool flows
- Experience with embedded design
Salary : $150,000 - $183,100