OLIX
Senior/Staff Digital Design Engineer
Austin, TX · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 71 days ago
PythonMATLABAlgorithmsMachine LearningNumPyFPGAVHDLVerilogElectrical EngineeringSimulinkCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- You will join a multidisciplinary group creating next-generation hardware where digital, optical and mixed-signal domains intersect.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design and implement high‑throughput digital pipelines (multi‑GSPS input rate, continuous streaming data paths, deep pipelining and hand‑shaking) in advanced CMOS nodes
- Model algorithms and validate concepts in MATLAB/Simulink (or equivalent), ensuring functional equivalence through to gate‑level sign‑off
- Own RTL development (SystemVerilog / Verilog / VHDL) including synthesis, static‑timing closure, formal and constrained‑random verification
- implement innovative techniques to achieve aggressive bandwidth‑per‑watt targets
- Collaborate with optical‑hardware, mixed‑signal and software teams to optimise data‑converter interfaces, clock‑domain crossings and firmware abstractions
- Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews and champion best‑practice design methodologies
- 7+ years of hands‑on digital design for high‑performance ASICs or SoCs, including ownership of at least one product that processes a continuous real‑time data stream
- Analyse power, performance and area (PPA); implement innovative techniques to achieve aggressive bandwidth‑per‑watt targets
Nice to have
- You're not just joining the mission
- you're owning a piece of it
- Due to U.S. export control regulations, candidates' eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status.
- Applicants who have subsequently obtained citizenship or permanent residency in another country not subject to these restrictions may still be eligible.
Skills
- Expertise with industry‑standard
- Proficiency using MATLAB/Simulink or Python/NumPy for algorithm modelling, fixed‑point analysis and test‑vector generation
- Solid grounding in digital signal‑processing concepts, computer‑architecture fundamentals and semiconductor device physics
- Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration abilities; thrives in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment
- constraint management, transceiver tuning, and hardware debug in the lab
- Tape‑out experience at 22 nm or below
- Knowledge of coherent optical links or photonic‑electronic co‑design.
- Familiarity with AI/ML workloads, systolic arrays or tensor‑processing architectures.
- Contributions to open‑source RTL, verification frameworks or FPGA boards.
- Competitive Salary: Commensurate with your experience, skills, and location
- Equity & Ownership: Meaningful stock options. You're not just joining the mission; you're owning a piece of it
- Retirement
Compensation
- Commensurate with your experience, skills, and location
Benefits
- Employer-contributed retirement plans to help you build long-term financial security
- Meaningful stock options.
- To minimise your commute and maximise your life, we offer an annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office
Visa & Work Authorization
- export control regulations, candidates' eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status
This listing is sourced directly from OLIX's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.