Silicon Design Lead

Skills

About the Role

You will drive the architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of key IP and subsystems for AI hardware platforms. You'll translate functional, performance, and security requirements into efficient silicon designs, owning technical decisions from definition through integration. Part of your work will be implementing hardware security in close partnership with the Security team, balancing security with performance, power, area, and complexity, while the rest focuses on general silicon architecture and microarchitecture.

Requirements

• Strong experience in silicon IP or subsystem-level architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation
• Experience owning hardware IP or subsystem designs from architecture through integration
• Experience implementing hardware security features such as memory encryption, key management, access controls, isolation, or secure boot
• Ability to translate functional and security requirements into hardware architectures and specifications
• Working knowledge of RTL design and proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog
• Ability to evaluate performance, power, area, and complexity tradeoffs
• Ability to work across security, architecture, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams
• May need to meet legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of silicon IP and subsystems from requirements through integration and validation
• Define hardware interfaces, data flows, and microarchitectural tradeoffs to meet functional, performance, power, and area requirements
• Partner with the Security team to translate security architecture, requirements, and threat models into hardware capabilities
• Design and integrate hardware security mechanisms including encryption, key management, access controls, isolation, and data protection
• Evaluate architectural and implementation tradeoffs for security, functionality, and performance
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams on subsystem design, integration, and validation
• Review and contribute to RTL implementations
• Evaluate existing and third-party IP, identify gaps, and drive solutions across subsystem boundaries

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
• Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
• Performance-related bonus