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Job description:
Leapfrog Semiconductor is a well funded chip design startup engaged in developing cutting edge solutions for the AI enhanced communications signal processing market (e.g – 5G, Wifi physical layer, Automotive/radar, etc). We are headquartered at San Diego, California and have a major engineering center at Bangalore, India. Backed by leading venture capitalists, and founded by industry veterans, we are uniquely poised to be a major disruptor in the wireless communication space. We invite you to know more about us at leapfrogsemi.comWorking at Leapfrog – The promise
- Cutting edge product development work
- Intellectually invigorating atmosphere
- Opportunity to work as a part of a global team of experts in their respective fields
- Meritocratic work culture with emphasis on ownership and accountability
- Avenues for accelerated professional growth
- Competitive compensation
- Generous stock options in an early stage startup with a huge upside potential
Working at Leapfrog – The premise
- You are excited at the prospect of participating in grounds-up product development
- You have a burning desire to get better as an engineer every day
- Challenges bring out the best in you
- Your work and work ethic reflect your commitment to a bias for action
- You believe in giving your best even when no one is looking
- Notwithstanding your experience level, you look for the devil in the technical details
HW engineering (Design and Verification) at Leapfrog – A sampling of responsibilities:
- Micro-architecture, RTL implementation, verification of DSP data-path hardware (LDPC Encoder/Decoder, FFT, Filters etc) for Leapfrog’s SIMD processor core
- Develop, integrate and verify various SoC components like NoCs, Interrupt Controllers, Debug Systems, SoC Peripherals, High Speed Interconnects like 100G Ethernet, JESD, PCIe, DDR etc
- Develop testbenches and test automation using appropriate methodology (UVM/C/System Verilog/Python) for IP / Subsystem and Full chip verification
- Develop FPGA based prototyping platform for system performance and software development
- Participate in discussions with algorithms engineers and Software engineers to discover optimal solutions to complex system level problems
- Work on various front-end tool flow including lint, CDC, Coverage analysis, synthesis, STA , Power
- Work with embedded platforms (hardware emulation systems,reference systems, customer platforms,) to validate the hardware and evaluate system performance in the lab
- Discover ways to improve way-of-working, by creating internal tools, scripts for automation
- Analyze customer requirements to evaluate improvements to the hardware
- Work on post silicon activities to bring up, validate and characterize the performance of the fabricated silicon in lab
HW Design Engineer at Leapfrog – Experience/Skills checklist:
- Fresh graduate – While we prefer post graduates with a background in Electronics, Computer Science,Digital Signal processing, Communication Systems. We will consider motivated graduates who have learnt any of the HDLs (Verilog / VHDL / SystemVerilog), and are conversant with the basics of Digital Electronics System Design.
- Experienced professionals – We invite interested HW engineers at all levels of industry experience in any of the following areas to apply –
- Experience domains –
- Should have been part of multiple tape-outs
- Experience on multiple frontend tools flow ( spyglass, synthesis, constraint validation, power analysis, LEC,Coverage analysis)
- For DSP / Datapath IP developers
- Should have hands-on DSP hardware implementation ( RTL coding, synthesis) experience with good understanding of digital communication concepts, DSP algorithms, fixed point /floating point arithmetic, DSP data path optimizations
- Background in FFT/LDPC/ Digital filter design is desirable
- Background in baseband hardware design for WLAN/LTE/Bluetooth /Cable Modem/5G technologies is desirable
- Background in RTL implementation of SIMD / Vector processing engines
- For SoC Developers
- Should have owned large SOC / Subsystems integration with in depth domain knowledge of one or multiple areas below
- CPU Subsystem components – Memory controllers, Interconnects IPs , Interrupt controllers etc
- Integration of complex IPs like PCIE, Ethernet ( MAC and PCS), DDR controller
- SOC Power Management
HW Design Verification Engineer at Leapfrog – Experience/Skills checklist:
- Fresh graduate – While we prefer post graduates with a background in Electronics, Computer Science, Digital Signal processing, Communication Systems. We will consider motivated graduates who have learnt any of the HDLs (Verilog / VHDL / SystemVerilog), and are conversant with the basics of Digital Electronics System Design.
- Experienced professionals – We invite interested HW engineers at all levels of industry experience in any of the following areas to apply.
- Experience domains – For Design Verification engineers proficient in SV and UVM C
- Design/Architecture development of testbench-bench environment, test automation, test planning and execution
- Should have owned verification of IP/Subsystem/SOC level verification like,
- Interface / Networking IPs like PCIE, Ethernet ( MAC and PCS), JESD ,
- Memory Controllers, DDR Interface, DMAs
- Systems having NOC Interconnects, multiple CPUs, SoC peripherals, interrupt controller, debug hardware etc
- DSP Data path
If you have made it this far, and are convinced that you will enjoy working with Leapfrog, please reach out to us at [email protected]
Job/Req. ID: N/A
Company: LeapFrog Semiconductor
Location: Bangalore, KA
Job Category: Electronics or Computer Science or VLSI Engineering
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