Senior SoC Design & Integration Engineer at Celestial AI

Santa Clara, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Semiconductor, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

Expertise in SoC integration
Experience with high-speed interfaces
Knowledge of AXI interconnects
ASIC implementation experience
RTL design skills
Synthesis experience
Familiarity with physical design processes (floor planning, place, clock tree synthesis)
Understanding of timing closure and power integrity

Responsibilities

Integrate UCIe or similar high-speed IPs into SoC designs
Define and configure AXI-based NoCs (Network-on-Chip), interconnects, and subsystem integration
Act as a technical liaison between IP vendors, SoC architects, verification, physical design teams, firmware, drive design reviews, discussions, and debug efforts, ensuring seamless SoC bring-up
Run Synthesis and design checks related to Lint, CDC and RDC
Optimize RTL integration for power, performance, and area
Work with the Physical design team to floor plan, place, clock tree synthesis (CTS), and help resolve routing congestion and checks for power integrity
Work with verification to support UVM based testbench

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

SoC IntegrationAXIRTL DesignSynthesisUVMASIC ImplementationTiming ClosureClock Tree SynthesisUCIeNetwork-on-ChipLintCDCRDCPhysical DesignPower Integrity

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

Is this position remote?

Yes, this is a remote position.

What is the salary for this role?

This information is not specified in the job description.

What key skills are required for this Senior SoC Design & Integration Engineer role?

Required skills include expertise in SoC integration, experience with high-speed interfaces, knowledge of AXI interconnects, ASIC implementation experience, RTL design skills, synthesis experience, and familiarity with physical design processes.

What does Celestial AI do?

Celestial AI develops the Photonic Fabric™, a next-generation interconnect technology offering a tenfold increase in performance and energy efficiency, and is building a Photonic Fabric ecosystem with tier-1 partnerships across silicon design, memory, assembly, and packaging.

What experience makes a strong candidate for this role?

Strong candidates will have expertise in SoC integration, high-speed interfaces like UCIe, AXI interconnects, ASIC implementation, RTL design, synthesis, and collaboration with physical design and verification teams.

Celestial AI

Optical interconnects for high-performance computing

About Celestial AI

Celestial AI focuses on high-performance computing for hyperscale data centers with its technology called Photonic Fabric™, an optical compute interconnect. This technology reduces DRAM requirements by up to 35% and lowers power consumption while increasing bandwidth capacity, which is essential for multi-tenant cloud environments. Additionally, it allows for the disaggregation of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) using optics instead of traditional connections. The goal is to provide optical connectivity that supports advancements in Generative AI and complex workloads.

Sunnyvale, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2020Year Founded

$329.6MTotal Funding

SERIES_CCompany Stage

Data & Analytics, Hardware, AI & Machine LearningIndustries

51-200Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Company Equity

Risks

Emerging competition from companies like Lightmatter and Ayar Labs.

Potential integration challenges with existing data center infrastructure.

Dependency on limited suppliers for photonic components poses supply chain risks.

Differentiation

Celestial AI's Photonic Fabric™ offers unique optical compute interconnect technology.

The company reduces DRAM requirements by up to 35%, saving billions annually.

Celestial AI enables disaggregation of HBM over optics, enhancing bandwidth capacity.

Upsides

Acquisition of Rockley Photonics' IP strengthens Celestial AI's competitive position.

$175 million Series C funding supports further innovation and market expansion.

Growing demand for energy-efficient solutions aligns with Celestial AI's sustainable focus.

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