September 2025
HW Design Engineer ASIC flow
INTERA is a company that brings R&D around IoT to the market, providing innovative real-time monitoring and management solutions, and being involved in state-of-the-art national and international collaborative R&D projects in areas such as Energy, Health, and Computing.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a technically capable experienced engineer. For the IC Design unit devoted to Edge Computing, we are looking for a profile with the knowledge to push our RTL code through the ASIC process. The focus will be specification writing, revision, and validation of the SoC infrastructures to produce a final chip design. Additionally, RTL design will be required for the role. The accelerators and co-processors inside the SoC are based on RISC-V/ARM architectures and targeted to Digital Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence applications in ultra-low-power devices.
For the position, the candidate will be engaged in the following activities:
- Specification writing and coordination with the backend team for ASIC design.
- RTL Design, debugging and testbench verification (DSP and AI oriented).
- Integration of HW accelerators (memory mapped and custom instructions) on RISC-V systems.
- RISC-V firmware/driver development (Embedded C) to test HW accelerators and peripherals.
Skills:
- PhD/BS/MS in Engineering with emphasis in Digital Design.
- Advanced knowledge of at least one Hardware Description Language, preferably System Verilog.
- Knowledge and experience working through the ASIC Digital Design Flow: specifications definition, RTL verification, synthesis, power estimation.
- Good knowledge of modern CPU architectures (preferably RISC-V) and micro-architectures.
- Embedded C for driver and firmware development.
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills and strong teamwork/collaboration.
Other desirable skills:
- Open-source development tools experience: Linux, GitHub, Makefiles, Python, etc.
- FPGA prototyping with EDA tools and platforms such as Xilinx/Altera or similar.
- AI theoretical/practical knowledge.
- RTOS and Embedded Linux experience.
- UVM theoretical/practical knowledge.
INTERA actively fosters an environment to facilitate and strengthen gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in selecting, hiring, remunerating and promoting its employees. The company also balances on-site and remote work according to personal and professional requirements.
