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Inspire Semiconductor, Inc.

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Inspire Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, Texas, us, 78716


InspireSemi is developing multi-thousand core RISC-V SoC’s for HPC & AI (High-Performance Computing), engineering/scientific, and graph analytics applications.

In this position, the successful candidate will be responsible for RTL design and verification of complex CPU and peripheral subsystems.

Job Responsibilities

Developing and documenting microarchitectures

Block- and system-level RTL coding in Verilog and SystemVerilog.

Synthesizing designs and providing timing constraints to the Physical Design team

Working with a verification team to define the test plan and thoroughly verifying a design

Qualifications

BS or higher degree in electrical or computer engineering

5+ years designing CPU cores, subsystems, and/or high-speed digital peripheral interfaces

Expert in RTL coding, IP integration, simulation, and synthesis

Strong verification, debugging, and PPA optimization skills

Preferred Experience

Cadence EDA toolchain, particularly Xcelium and Genus

Verification and quality checks (Lint, CDC, formal LEC)

Hardware/software codesign and software-driven verification

Familiarity with automated place and route/physical design (Innovus)

RISC-V CPU design, including floating-point and load/store subsystems

Low power and multi-power domain design

Programming (C/C++/assembly) and scripting (Perl, Python, Tcl)

Test pattern development and post-silicon debug

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