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Required Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer, High Speed DSP
About the job
In this role, youll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers our most demanding AI/ML applications. Youll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.
As a Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer for High-Speed DSP, you will architect and define the low-level firmware and control loops powering the world's most advanced physical-layer communications silicon. Sitting at the critical intersection of digital signal processing (DSP), hardware-software co-design, and real-time systems, you will lead the development of adaptive algorithms, error correction (FEC), and link-telemetry frameworks. Your work will directly bridge the gap between high-performance hardware pipelines and our planetary-scale AI infrastructure, transforming complex communication systems theory into reliable, real-time silicon execution.
Responsibilities
Define the long-term firmware roadmap and hardware-software partitioning for physical-layer interfaces, determining the optimal balance between hardware-fixed logic and programmable firmwarm.
Architect advanced "in-situ" monitoring systems and firmware-driven diagnostics to track physical-layer link health, Bit Error Rate (BER) trends, and channel quality across millions of ports in real-time.
Design, model, and implement bare-metal or RTOS firmware to control high-speed transceivers, managing real-time adaptive loops, clock and data recovery (CDR), and physical-layer calibration.
Partner with TPU Systems, Networking Software, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) teams to ensure silicon firmware integrates seamlessly with global cluster management and collective communication frameworks.
Identify and de-risk hardware-software interface bottlenecks (e.g., register maps, driver latencies, and boot-up sequencing) that impact our AI infrastructure.

Required RTL Design Technical Lead, Networking, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
As part of our Server Chip Design team, you will use your ASIC design experience to be part of a team that creates the SoC VLSI design cycle from start to finish. You will collaborate closely with design and verification engineers in active projects, creating architecture definitions with RTL coding, and running block level simulations.
In this role, you will contribute in all phases of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs from design specification to production. You will collaborate with members of architecture, software, verification, power, timing, synthesis, etc. to specify and deliver high quality SoC/RTL. You will solve technical problems with innovative micro-architecture and practical logic solutions, and evaluate design options with complexity, performance, power and area in mind.
We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Clouds Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Define the block level design documents such as interface protocol, block diagram, transaction flow, pipeline, and more.
Perform RTL development (e.g., coding and debug in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL), function/performance simulation debug, and Lint/CDC/FV/UPF checks.
Participate in synthesis, timing/power, and FPGA/silicon bring-up.
Participate in test plan and coverage analysis of the block and SOC-level verification.
Communicate and work with multi-disciplined and multi-site teams.

We are seeking a Senior System Management Architect to lead the management architecture for our advanced SmartNIC cards. You will be the resident expert for SmartNIC system management, ensuring that NIC ASICs, Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs), MCUs, CPUs, and CPLDs operate in perfect unison. You will own the lifecycle management specifications for SmartNIC platforms-from factory provisioning and day-one deployment to complex orchestrated reset flows and secure recovery. If you are someone who enjoys looking at a high-level system diagram and then immediately diving into the I2C/I3C bus topologies and PLDM command structures required to make it work, this role is for you.

What you'll be doing:

System Architecture & Flow Definition: Define and document comprehensive production, provisioning, update, recovery and reset flows for SmartNIC cards. Crucially, you will ensure that these board-level architectural decisions perfectly align with and support overarching platform-level needs, orchestrating seamless coordination between the NIC ASIC, BMC, CPU, and peripheral components.

Security & Provisioning: Specify security provisioning flows including OTP fusing, secure boot enablement, attestation key injection, certificate chain management, RPMC key derivation, and PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) requirements. Define IPN-to-OPN transition and component locking procedures.

Protocol Implementation & Guidance: Specify the use of standard management protocols (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, NC-SI) across internal board interfaces to achieve secure boot, firmware updates, and telemetry gathering.

Hardware/Software Intersect: Dive deep into device-level hardware and software behaviour. Define CPLD logic requirements, power-sequencing dependencies, and reset orchestration (e.g., handling PCIe PERST#, SBR, and forced resets) for multi-host and standalone SmartNIC environments.

Interface Management: Architect intra-board communication pathways using PCIe, I2C/I3C, USB, and SPI, ensuring robust out-of-band (OOB) and in-band management connectivity.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate tightly with Production teams, Hardware and Firmware Engineering, NIC FW/Driver teams, and QA to translate your architectural specifications into implementable, testable realities.

Technical Documentation: Author rigorous technical specifications, test plans, and architectural design documents to guide both development and factory production.

We are looking for best-in-class Physical Design Engineers to join our outstanding Networking Silicon engineering team, developing the industry's best high-speed communication devices, delivering the highest throughput and lowest latency! Come and take a part in designing our groundbreaking and innovating chips, enjoy working in a meaningful, growing and highly professional environment where you make a significant impact in a technology-focused company.

What you'll be doing:

You will be in charge of developing full-chip physical design methodologies, Physical Verification development and support through all the projects, Tapeout activities for implementation of networking chips and SOCs.

Work closely with Full Chip Layout owners and block owners, project managers to assure high quality and timely convergence.

Come up with unique and creative solutions to the state of the art FCL physical design problems that are needed for our chips.

We expect you to run, debug, and approve Physical Verification flows across multiple projects, ensuring strict adherence to our high standards.

Participating and developing flow and tool methodologies for fullchip, physical design verification across multiple projects.

We are seeking a Senior System Management Architect to join our growing team. You will be the resident expert for system management, ensuring that AI factory management components (BMCs, MCUs, CPUs, network switches and CPLDs) operate in perfect unison. You will own the lifecycle management specifications for AI factory platforms - from factory provisioning to day-one deployment. If you enjoy studying a high-level system diagram and then immediately diving into the system-level buses and interface signals topology and the associated host management protocols modeling required to make it work, this role is for you.



What you'll be doing:

System Architecture & Flow Definition: Define and document comprehensive production, provisioning, update, recovery, and reset flows for AI factory sub-systems.
Ensure system-level architectural alignment and orchestrate seamless coordination between all the AI-Factory building blocks: GPU, DPU, CPU, Switch ASIC, NIC ASIC, BMC, and peripheral components.

Protocol Implementation & Guidance: Specify the use of standard management protocols (Red-Fish, NSM, PLDM, SPDM, MCTP, NC-SI) across sub-system interfaces to implement the management tasks.

Hardware/Software Intersect: Define system-level hardware and software behavior, including CPLD logic requirements, power-sequencing dependencies, and reset orchestration (e.g., handling PCIe PERST#, SBR, and forced resets).

Interface Management: Architect intra-board communication pathways using PCIe, I2C/I3C, USB, and SPI, ensuring robust out-of-band (OOB) and in-band management connectivity.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Production, Hardware and Firmware Engineering, ASIC FW/Driver teams, SW/NOS teams and QA to translate architectural specifications into implementable, testable solutions.

Technical Documentation: Author rigorous technical specifications, test plans, and architectural design documents to guide development and factory production.

we are establishing a strategic R&D center in Israel to drive the development of complex semiconductor chips that solve the critical 'data bottlenecks' enabling the future of AI at scale. As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a highly skilled Chip Top Physical Design Engineer focusing on implementation to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.
If you thrive on solving complex, unnamed challenges in deep-submicron processes, your place is with us.
As a Physical Design Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of our PD Team in the Israel R&D center. You will execute the physical design of the SoC Top level for chips that drive the worlds largest AI clusters. You will be deeply involved in all PD disciplines of the chip, driving the tape-out (T.O.) GDS to meet strict signoff criteria (Timing, LVS, EMIR, DRC, PV, etc.), ensuring our silicon meets the extreme performance, power, and area (PPA) targets required for AI scale.
Key Responsibilities
Execute SoC Top-level physical design and actively drive full-chip convergence
Perform Top-Level physical implementation, including floor-planning, Place & Route (P&R), Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Power/Clock distribution, Power Integrity, and Timing/Physical signoff
Work closely with the Architecture, Design, DFT, and Product teams to achieve optimal Power, Performance, and Area (PPA). This involves participating in feasibility studies for new architectures and optimizing runs to ensure the best Quality of Results (QoR)
Resolve complex signal integrity, thermal, and power challenges inherent in high-speed connectivity silicon
Collaborate closely with the Package team on Bump-map-to-Ballout design, taking all signal integrity aspects into consideration.

Required IP Design Lead, Networking, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
In this role, you will use Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design to be part of a team that creates the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design cycle from start to finish. You will collaborate with design and verification engineers in projects, creating architecture definitions with Register-Transfer Level (RTL) coding, and running block level simulations. You will contribute in ASIC designs from design specification to production. You will collaborate with members of architecture, software, verification, power, timing, synthesis and more to specify and deliver high-quality SoC/RTL. You will also solve technical issues with innovative micro-architecture and practical logic solutions, and evaluate design options with performance, power, and area in mind.Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next-generation of our platforms, we make product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
Own Networking Internet Protocols (IP's) Design team including definition, implementation and deployment.
Establish IP development methodologies sharing unified blocks within the IP design team.
Define the block level design documents such as interface protocol, block diagram, transaction flow, pipeline, and more.
Demonstrate technical involvement throughout the entire Intellectual Property (IP) development cycle, ensuring seamless integration into System-on-Chip (SoC).
Perform RTL development (e.g., coding and debug in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL), function/performance simulation debug, and Lint/CDC/FV/UPF checks.

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Networking Software Architect to join the NIC/DPU Software and Firmware Architecture group. In this role, you will help define the next generation of our datacenter and AI networking platforms, with focus on DPU management, QoS, performance, telemetry, and software architecture across stacks. You will work closely with hardware designers, firmware/kernel driver teams, system engineers, validation, product management and customers. The role spans early architecture definition, pre-silicon design, bring-up, and production readiness for large-scale AI and cloud datacenter deployments.

What Youll Be Doing:

Own software and system architecture for next-generation DPU management, QoS, performance, telemetry, and observability features.

Define end-to-end control and management flows across DOCA, host drivers, embedded firmware, BMC, management controllers and external management systems.

Specify telemetry and observability requirements, including counters, logs, traces, events, health monitoring, debug data, and streaming telemetry.

Define management interfaces and APIs for configuration, provisioning, lifecycle operations, diagnostics, and field serviceability.

Write clear architecture specifications, interface definitions, flow diagrams, and design documents for software, firmware, and system teams.

Partner with R&D teams to translate high-level architecture into implementable designs and guide features through development, validation, silicon bring-up, and production.

Analyze system performance bottlenecks, interoperability issues, telemetry gaps, and customer-reported issues, then feed learnings into future architecture.

Collaborate with system and cluster architects to ensure NIC/DPU features fit end-to-end AI datacenter and cloud networking designs.

We are looking for a creative, independent Product Engineer to join our Networking business unit. For over two decades, Our Networking has continuously reinvented itself, delivering industry leading high speed interconnect products. Our solutions set the standard for performance, scalability, and innovation enabling true end to end high speed Ethernet and InfiniBand solutions.

As we continue to grow, we are seeking exceptional engineers to help drive the next wave of technological advancement. In this role, you will take a leading position in the Interconnect Cluster Performance domain. You will work closely with global technical teams to gain deep architectural insight, investigate customer complaints, and drive product excellence. If you are passionate about building high-quality products that make a real-world impact, we want to hear from you.

What Youll Be Doing:

Maintain high-quality product deliveries through in depth BIG data analysis and failure analysis.

Improve product performance by collaborating with Process, Mechanical, Hardware, and Thermal teams.

Lead high impact task forces and cross functional working groups.

Help Design and enhance product test plans to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Manage failure analysis for both field and lab issues.

Collaborate closely with Customer Support, Marketing, Engineering, Quality, and Reliability teams.

The System-On-Chip (SOC) group is looking for a strong RTL Design Engineer to own the SOC clocking logic for our next-generation networking chips. Clocks are the backbone of the SOC. In this role you will own the clock generation, distribution, and control logic for the entire chip - PLL and reference clock integration, clock muxing and dividers, glitchless switching, clock gating, reset synchronization, and the clock domain crossing infrastructure that every unit on the die depends on.

This is an RTL design role, not a circuit or transistor-level design role. You will translate micro-architecture specifications into high-quality synthesizable RTL, and drive that RTL through to silicon in close partnership with the micro-architecture, Design Verification, and Physical Design (backend) teams. You will also interact with CAD, Package Design, Software, and DFT teams.

What you'll be doing:

Owning the SOC clocking logic end to end: writing synthesizable Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL for clock generation, distribution, muxing, division, glitchless switching, gating, and reset synchronization, from micro-architecture specification through tape-out.

Defining and implementing the SOC clock and reset architecture together with the micro-architecture team - collecting clocking requirements from every unit on the chip and turning them into a coherent, verifiable design.

Owning clock domain crossing infrastructure and CDC closure across the SOC.

Partnering with the micro-architecture team to review specifications, close on design intent, and provide feedback on implementation cost, timing, area, and power.

Working hand-in-hand with the Physical Design (backend) team on clock tree implementation and constraints, partitioning, floorplan and timing feedback, trial synthesis, congestion and timing convergence, and physical design readiness.

Supporting Software and firmware teams on clock programming sequences, DVFS, and low-power/clock-shutdown flows.

Driving design quality: lint, CDC/RDC, formal checks, synthesis QoR, connectivity and structural checks.

Supporting SOC-level chip build and assembly, and developing/deploying automation flows that make RTL integration and design quality checking repeatable and scalable.

Supporting emulation, firmware, and post-silicon bring-up customers of your design.