Principal RTL Design Engineer
SambaNova · Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose
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- Company
- SambaNova
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose
- Salary
- $180,000 — $255,000
- Posted
- August 19, 2026
About this job
About the team The RTL design team builds the compute datapath, on-chip network, and memory subsystems inside SambaNova's RDU AI accelerator. Their work spans microarchitecture through tape-out, including RTL implementation, PPA trade-offs, quality gates like lint, CDC, and LEC, and timing closure with physical design. About the role SambaNova is looking for a Principal RTL Design Engineer to own the microarchitecture and RTL for our next-generation Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), the silicon behind our AI acceleration systems. This is a senior individual contributor role where you'll take a block from microarchitecture specification through RTL, quality closure, and tape-out, owning the power, performance, and area trade-offs along the way.…
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