Job Description

Job description for HW

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.com

Working 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 jobs@leapfrogsemi.com

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