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Hardware/ Software Co-Design Engineer

💼 Full-time💰 $151,000–$261,000🗓 2026-09-25

Core

Designing micro-architecture and RTL for low-power DSPs, hardware accelerators, and SoCs for high-bandwidth brain-machine interfaces.

Role type

Senior IC hardware/software co-design engineer

Builds

Low-power digital signal processors, general-purpose hardware accelerators, GPUs, and radio/serial link MAC/PHYs for brain-computer interfaces

Domain

Semiconductor hardware design for neural recording and stimulation systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Micro-architecture design, RTL implementation, embedded software (C/Rust), SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python, emulation modeling, digital system architecture, DSP pipeline design

Preferred skills

Architecture optimization with process technology, digital system verification, physical design, SoC debugging, functional modeling, tool flow automation, ISA design, compiler back-end design

Technologies

SystemVerilog, C, C++, Python, Rust, SystemC

Responsibilities

Design and optimize hardware/software interfaces with firmware engineers; perform complex system modeling for energy and performance benchmarks; conduct workload analysis and energy/performance profiling; collaborate on silicon bring-up tests with verification engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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