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Senior ASIC RTL Design Engineer, AI Hardware

Cerebras· Hardware
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)$200k - $290kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior front-end design engineer for Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), focused on RTL design, integration, and delivering high-performance, power-efficient, scalable semiconductor architectures. Collaboration across verification, physical design, software, and system teams from concept to production.

Responsibilities

  • Drive all aspects of chip design, including Functional Specification, Micro-architecture, RTL development, Synthesis.
  • 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+ 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 high-performance computing, GPU/CPU designs, machine learning or related fields.
  • Proven track record of multiple silicon success.
  • Experience collaborating with external vendors.
  • 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 integrationScriptingPCIe/Serdes
Nice to have:Networking

Benefits

  • Base salary range: $200,000 to $290,000 annually.
  • Actual compensation may include bonus and equity, determined by experience and qualifications.
Last updated Oct 4, 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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