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Lead RTL Design Engineer

Cerebras· Hardware
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Sunnyvale, CA$200k - $299kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead front-end design engineer responsible for RTL design and integration of Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), coordinating with verification, physical design, software, system teams and external ASIC vendors to deliver high-performance, power-efficient, and scalable silicon solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Drive all aspects of chip design, including Functional Specification, Micro-architecture, RTL development, Synthesis.
  • Managing external ASIC vendor through product development cycle.
  • Work closely with PD team members for design closure to meet PPA goals.
  • Work closely with Design verification and DFT teams for achieving the best functional and test coverage.
  • Work with software and system teams to understand opportunities to deliver optimal performance and feature set for the product.
  • Debug silicon-level functional, timing, and power issues during bring up.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
  • 8-15 years of experience in delivering complex, high performance high quality RTL designs.
  • Experience with Front End Chip integration and third-party IP integration.
  • Demonstrated experience in networking, high-performance computing, machine learning or related fields.
  • Proven track record of multiple silicon success.
  • Experience collaborating and managing external vendors.
  • Experience with designing/integrating high speed IO.
  • Networking stack experience including TCP/IP, RDMA and Ethernet.
  • Knowledge of PCIe, CPU interfaces and Serdes technology.
  • Working knowledge of scripting tools: Python, TCL.

Skills

Required:RTL designFront End Chip integrationNetworkingHigh speed I/O designPCIe/SerdesScriptingVendor managementDebuggingLeadership/coordination
Last updated Sep 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cerebras

Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training. Learn more at cerebras.ai.

Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training.

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