Senior Silicon CAD Engineer

Untether in Toronto/Remote

Untether AI is building the world’s highest performance pure-digital AI inference chip. We’re a rapidly growing Toronto-based startup, with employees across Canada and the US. Our novel architecture is already in customer hands, providing unparalleled performance and energy efficiency. We are investing in design automation in a big way, to make it as seamless as possible for our engineers to design the next generations of our product line.

As our new Senior Silicon CAD Engineer, you will work with a team that develops and maintains a world-class set of design automation tools, to support our whole hardware organization. You know from past experience what the system should look like. At Untether AI, you’ll have an opportunity to build it from the ground up, unencumbered by decades of technical debt. The successful candidate will have experience supporting off-the-shelf EDA software, as well as designing, implementing, and supporting custom tooling for hardware design teams.

***Please note: While our engineering HQ is in Toronto, this is a remote opportunity and we welcome applicants from anywhere in North America.***
A little bit more about Untether AI

Untether AI has developed a groundbreaking new architecture that brings neural net inference to new levels of performance and efficiency.  We’ve already sold our product to smart clients who want to get in at ground zero.  We’ve done this while continuing to improve our technology creating ultra-efficient, high performance AI chips that eliminates the data movement bottleneck that costs energy and performance in traditional architectures.  We’re a team made up of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs and have the support of tier one investors. We recently received $125 million in our series B funding round which enables us to expand our customer engagements, enhance our software offering, and build the next generation of industry leading AI inference products. Join us to be part of something big - a chance to create the future of AI.
    • 5+ years of experience:
    • Working with EDA tools in the hardware design industry
    • Evaluating, acquiring, installing, and supporting tools to meet team needs
    • Developing flows and scripts to support EDA tools
    • Developing custom scripts and software to improve team efficiency beyond what off the shelf EDA tools can provide
    • Hands-on expertise in at least one of the following focus areas: RTL design, verification, physical design, EM/IR, and custom circuit design
    • Experience working with vendor AEs to resolve technical issues
    • Excellent UNIX and scripting programming skills (Perl, Python, TCL and Skill)
    • Ability to turn engineering team headaches into specific technical solutions
    • Excellent UNIX and scripting programming skills (Perl, Python, TCL and Skill)
    • Experience creating custom scripts and software for build automation
    • Strong understanding of digital circuits and analog circuits
    • Good knowledge of common design flows:
    • Verification: Simulation and Formal Verification
    • Physical Design: Place and Route, Custom (ICC, Virtuoso)
    • Digital Circuit Design: Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis (DC, PT,Spyglass)
    • Analog and Custom Circuits: Finesim, hspice, spectre
    • Regression management with Jenkins or similar tools
    • LSF
    • Experience with custom layout and physical design
    • Experience with version control software (perforce, git)
    • Aligned to Untether’s philosophy, our employees enjoy the same perks, regardless of role or level.  In part, these include:

    • 20 vacation days
    • Strong health and extended health benefits
    • Unlimited sick days
    • Stock options
    • Building chips and software that will change the world
    • We’re a pretty welcoming bunch of people.  If we’ve piqued your interest, you’re passionate about the same things we are but you aren’t sure if you check all the boxes, please apply anyway.  We’re a great place to work, an even better place to learn and we focus on both capability and potential!
    • Besides being a pretty friendly group, we’re also pretty diverse - ethnically, experientially and in our physical and mental abilities.  If you are someone who needs accommodation during the interview process and/or in the workplace, please send a note along with your resume to careers@untether.ai and we’ll be in touch.
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