Digital IC Design Engineer

Job description

**About Neuralink:** We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to the blind, and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world. **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 digital signal processors - Low-power general-purpose hardware accelerators - Low-power graphics processing units - Low-power radio MAC/PHY - Low-power serial link MAC/PHY - Design 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 - 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 architecture optimization with process technology customization - 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 - Experience in processor instruction set architecture design - Experience in compiler back-end design and customization **Expected Compensation:** The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the following range. Your actual base pay will be determined by your job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We also believe in aligning our employees’ success with the company's long-term growth. As such, in addition to base salary, Neuralink offers equity compensation (in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSU)) for all full-time employees. Base Salary Range: $116,000—$233,800 USD **What We Offer:** Full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below. - An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields - Growth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact - Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan - Paid holidays - Commuter benefits - Meals provided - Equity (RSUs) *\*Temporary Employees & Interns excluded* - 401(k) plan *\*Interns initially excluded until they work 1,000 hours* - Parental leave *\*Temporary Employees & Interns excluded* - Flexible time off *\*Temporary Employees & Interns excluded*