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Sr Principal Engineer, Chip Lead

Hyderabad, in💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-25 → 2026-07-31

Core

Leading RTL design for power-efficient SoCs, driving integration across architecture, verification, and physical design teams to deliver semiconductor solutions.

Role type

Sr Principal Engineer, Chip Lead (RTL Design)

Builds

Power-efficient System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets.

Domain

Semiconductor / Hardware Design

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

RTL design (Verilog/SystemVerilog), CPU-based chip design, D2D protocols (UCIe/Bunch-of-wires), Microcontroller/Microprocessor design, Timing closure, PPA optimization, Low-power design, Multi-clock domain architectures, Synthesis/STA, Memory controllers (DDR/LPDDR/Flash), IP selection.

Preferred skills

High Speed Peripherals (DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, GPU, VPU), NIC/FlexNOC interconnect, Flash memory subsystems.

Technologies

Verilog, SystemVerilog, UCIe, AHB, AXI, CHI, ROM, RAM, Flash, LPDDR, DDR3, DDR4, PCIe, Ethernet, GPU, VPU, FlexNOC

Responsibilities

Drive chip integration and team alignment to meet project goals; Create RTL micro-arch specifications and drive RTL design; Optimize RTL for timing, power, and area targets; Collaborate with verification, firmware, and physical design teams; Provide technical leadership to junior engineers; Support post-silicon debug; Make IP selection and make/buy decisions.

Seniority

Sr Principal, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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