Design Engineer

Hiring: Digital IC Design Engineer

Location: Berkeley, California

Working model: Onsite, five days per week

Compensation: From $180,000 base salary, plus equity

Visa sponsorship: Available

We are hiring a Digital IC Design Engineer to join an early-stage photonic computing company building a new hardware platform for AI workloads. This is a broad, hands-on role for someone who wants to take digital blocks from RTL design through synthesis, physical implementation, tape-out and silicon bring-up.

What you will own

• Design and integrate RTL for digital functions and interfaces, including UART, SPI and SRAM connectivity.
• Run synthesis, static timing analysis, gate-level simulation and place-and-route flows.
• Work with advanced process technologies, standard-cell libraries and physical-design constraints.
• Support chip tape-out, lab bring-up and post-silicon validation.
• Work across architecture, design, verification and implementation as needed.
• Help build the company’s wider digital IC capability as the team grows.

What we are looking for

• Strong RTL experience using Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Hands-on exposure to synthesis, timing analysis and physical implementation.
• Experience taking a chip or substantial digital block through implementation and into the lab.
• Comfort working across multiple stages of the digital design flow.
• A resourceful, ownership-driven approach suited to an early-stage startup.

Why join?

This is an opportunity to own meaningful parts of a chip, work across photonic ICs, electronic ICs, packaging and architecture, and help shape a new computing platform from an early stage.

Featured benefits

Medical insurance, Vision insurance, 401(k), Dental insurance