CPU RTL Design Engineer
📌Austin, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
At MIPS, we’re shaping the future of compute architecture with advanced IP that powers a wide range of applications. We take a disciplined, methodical approach to designing scalable, energy-efficient solutions that meet demanding power, performance, and area goals.
Our team spans from architecture, performance modeling, design, verification, implementation to software and software optimization for our customers. The team thrives on collaboration, technical depth, and a culture of mutual respect. We value diverse perspectives and practical experience, and we know that excellence is built through thoughtful teamwork and a commitment to the highest engineering standards.
We’re seeking a CPU RTL design engineer with prior experience in creating structural RTL for one of the following: CPU, GPU, DSP, Interconnects, memory controllers or compute accelerators.
As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of CPU functional blocks and implement RTL, and work with verification and physical design engineers to ensure adherence to functional and physical project requirements.
Our flexible hybrid work model—three days in the office, two remote—supports both in-person collaboration/mentoring and focused development time.
Join us and put your skills, insight, and passion to work to redefine what’s possible
Description
As a CPU design engineer you own or participate in the following:
- RTL design of one or many functional blocks based on the microarchitectural specification. Ownership includes the RTL design, implementation and convergence of the block to project requirements (performance, timing, power, area, schedule)
- Support of the verification team for test bench development, test plan development and test content development, including performance verification
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Work with physical design teams, and design for testability teams to implement and converge physical design and testability
- Minimum BS and 2+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience in structural data path and/or control logic design
- Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL
- Experience with commercial simulators and debugging tools
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Good verbal and written communication skills to interface with performance modeling, verification and physical design team
- Experience with timing convergence
- Experience with low power design techniques
- Experience using scripting languages and regular expressions
- Programming experience with assembly, C, or C++
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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