Lumilens
Design Lead/ Front-End Architect / Datapath Lead
San Jose
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 28 days ago
Node.jsCloud PlatformsVerilog
About the role
- As a founding hire you define the methodology before there's RTL to verify - this role is on the critical path, and getting the coverage strategy and regression infrastructure right early is the single biggest schedule lever we have.
- This is the architectural center of the chip: the datapath, the UCIe streaming interface, in-house IP, and the interface to the optical engine all converge in your blocks.
- As a founding hire you set the partitioning, interfaces, and coding/CDC standards the whole front end follows.
Responsibilities
- Front-end micro-architecture and block partitioning; the architecture spec the RTL team builds to.
- You own verification end to end for a first-of-its-kind chiplet.
- You define the digital front-end micro-architecture - the spec the design team implements - and personally own the high-speed datapath that moves data between UCIe and the optical front end.
- Front-end design methodology and quality: RTL coding standards, lint, CDC/RDC signoff, and clean-RTL policy across the team.
- Lead, grow, and mentor the front-end design team as the group scales (datapath, interfaces, integration).
- 10+ years digital design / micro-architecture, with lead ownership of a high-throughput datapath or SerDes-adjacent SoC.
- Proven ownership of front-end design methodology - lint/CDC/RDC signoff, clocking/reset architecture, and design-for-test and physical-closure collaboration.
- Professional development opportunities and certification support
- Architectural DFT and debug provisioning - scan-friendly structure and on-die observability/controllability for a die you can't probe (with the DFT and DV leads).
- Architectural trade-offs with the modelling lead (latency, buffering, datapath sampling/observability) and the DV lead (verifiability and debug).
Skills
- About Lumilens
- This isn't incremental innovation, it's a ground-floor opportunity to rethink the optical layer from the silicon up.
Compensation
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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