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Digital IC Design Engineer Intern

Neuralink· Internships
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South San Francisco, CAinternPosted 11mo ago

About the role

Internship focused on digital IC design for low-power SoC architectures and hardware accelerators for wireless brain–computer interfaces, including RTL implementation, architecture optimization, verification, and silicon bring-up collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • 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 implementation of hardware/software interface with firmware engineers
  • Application-specific architecture optimization including: Complex system modeling for energy and performance benchmarks; Workload analysis and modeling; Leveraging architecture-level design trade-offs with process technology and workload type; Balancing energy efficiency and performance under manufacturing process variation
  • Complex system-on-chip verification
  • Behavioral level modeling and model equivalence check
  • FPGA emulation
  • Analog mixed-signal co-simulation
  • Design for testability
  • Collaboration on silicon bring-up tests with silicon validation engineers

Qualifications

  • Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering
  • 2+ years of experience in digital design
  • Proficient 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

Skills

Required:SystemVerilogC/C++Python

Benefits

  • An opportunity to change the world and work with highly talented experts from different fields
  • Growth potential; rapid advancement for high-impact team members
  • 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
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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