Principal ASIC Design Engineer

Principal ASIC Design Engineer

Full-Time On-site
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We are seeking a senior ASIC design engineer to lead and deliver complex digital design for next-generation AI accelerators and high-performance SoC subsystems. The role spans architecture and microarchitecture through RTL implementation, verification, tape-out and silicon validation, with a strong focus on performance, power and area (PPA).

Key Responsibilities

  • Define architecture and microarchitecture for AI accelerators and complex SoC blocks, including compute pipelines, memory hierarchies, interconnects and DMA.
  • Develop synthesizable RTL using Verilog/SystemVerilog; optimize datapaths, control logic, pipelining and resource sharing.
  • Design or integrate high-bandwidth memory and I/O subsystems, including LPDDR and PCIe; consider NoC, cache coherency and data movement.
  • Drive design quality across simulation, lint, CDC/RDC, synthesis, timing analysis and collaboration with verification and physical-design teams.
  • Support the ASIC lifecycle from specification and RTL through tape-out, silicon bring-up, post-silicon debug and production validation.
  • Work with firmware, software and system teams on hardware/software interfaces and system-level integration.

Required Experience

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • 10+ years of hands-on digital ASIC/SoC microarchitecture and RTL design experience.
  • Strong Verilog/SystemVerilog skills and experience designing GPUs, NPUs, AI accelerators or complex SoC subsystems.
  • Experience taking ASIC/SoC designs from specification through tape-out and silicon production.
  • Knowledge of digital datapaths, memory subsystems, interconnects, clock/reset design and ASIC design flows.
  • Working knowledge of PCIe and LPDDR technologies, plus experience with hardware/software integration or functional verification.

Preferred

  • GPU/NPU or AI inference accelerator design; transformer, tensor or matrix-multiplication workloads.
  • PCIe Gen5/Gen6, LPDDR5/5X/6, chiplets, die-to-die links, NoC, cache coherency or AMBA AXI/ACE/CHI.
  • UVM/formal verification, FPGA prototyping or emulation; advanced process nodes and low-power design

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Mpowering People Ltd Recruitment Team