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Job Title : Hardware Design Developer – Verilog

Employment Type : Full-Time Contract (8 hours/day)

Location : Remote

Experience : 3+ Years (Mandatory)

Notice Period : Immediate

Job Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Hardware Design Developer to leverage hardware design platforms for generating training data to enhance enterprise LLMs' capabilities. This role offers a unique opportunity to directly impact AI advancements by optimizing hardware designs for training and benchmarking large language models.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop, configure, and customize hardware design platforms to generate training data for enterprise LLMs.
• Work closely with research teams to translate requirements into actionable insights.
• Ensure high-quality coding, debugging, and documentation to optimize hardware design solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve LLM performance and automation capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 3 to 5 Years of hardware design development experience.
• Expertise in HDLs (Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, SystemC).
• Strong background in scripting, front-end workflows, and verification processes.
• Familiarity with Synopsys, Cadence, or open-source toolchains.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Expertise in UVM environments, Formal Verification, and Lint refinement.
• Experience with Computer Architecture, Assembly Debugging, and Assertion Coding (SVA).
• Familiarity with Machine Learning and AI systems.

Mandatory Technical Skills :

• Min 2 Years of relevant experience in Hardware Design and/or Verification.
• Experience with at least one of the following:
• ASIC, VLSI, FPGA, SoC development.
• SystemVerilog, Verilog, Testbench development, and Verification.
• Strong understanding of IP Development and Verification.

Note: This role focuses on LLM training using hardware design, not traditional project development.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Embedded/DSP system design.

• Complex logic implementation using RTL coding techniques (preferably VHDL and HLS)

• Able to implement various complex algorithms and curve fitting/Neural network based algorithms inside the FPGA hardware.

• Writing modular RTL codes and design techniques using IPs.

• Simulating the design at various stages of development.

• CDC, STA, area/power optimizations, floor planning, linting.

• Interfacing high speed ADCs/DACs using state of the art data transfer links to FPGA.

• Using DDR RAM and SG-DMA for low latency, high-speed data transfer.

• Familiarity with high-speed communication systems viz. USB 3, PCIe, Gbe, 10 Gbe, 100

Gbe etc.

• Linux device driver development.

Skills

• VHDL/Verilog, C/C++, familiar with Xilinx development tools.

• Design knowledge of PCIe, LVDS, SPI, AXI, USB etc. interfaces.

• Ability to design using primitives instead of inferred design from RTL.

• Embedded linux device drivers, petalinux, exposure to yocto project.

• Exposure to various compression algorithms.

Desired Qualification/Experience

• Talent and zeal to work with new challenging system designs.

• Thorough understanding of digital systems.

• Hands-on experience on the RTL design, preferably with a repository of previous

projects

1. Coding and Debugging in C language.
2. Knowledge on ARM based architectures of 8/16/32 Microcontrollers,UART, ADC, DAC,Ethernet, SPI,CAN,I2C and I2S.
3. FPGA RTL coding and Simulation using Verilog/VHDL

Qualification - BE/B.Tech (ECE), M.Sc.(Electronics)

Only Defense and Aerospace, Electronics, Semi-Conductors,

(No Automative industry)

AVANTEL LIMITED is a technology driven public limited company with focus on developing innovative wireless communication products and solutions to meet unique requirements of defense, railways, and telecom sectors. The organization is certified against AS 9100D and ISO 9001:2015 standards for Quality Management System. For more details visit www.avantel.in.

Job Description :

Own partition floorplanning for optimizing blocks for Power, Performance and Area.

Own execution from synthesis to place and route of partitions through all signoff including timing signoff, physical verification, EMIR signoff , Formal Equivalence, and Low Power Verification.

Have close collaboration with RTL team to help drive and resolve design issues related to block closure.

Understand tools, flows, and overall design methodology in design construction, signoff, and optimization with a data driven approach.

Implement robust clock distribution solutions using appropriate methods that meet design requirements.

Make good independent technical trade-offs between power, area, and timing (PPA)

Responsibilities

 Develop an effective test suite based on the FPGA requirements.

 Testbench architecture with System Verilog and UVM

 Develop test environments based on the architecture.

 Develop Agents, Drivers, Monitors, Predictors, Scoreboard, and Sequences etc.

 Actively participate in a team environment, working with verification,

architecture, applications, and design teams to develop comprehensive

verification plans and address issues.

 Verification environment development/update for block level and system level.

 Own and drive verification related activities, provide technical support, and

proactively manage tasks to meet schedule goals.

 Define and develop effective functional assertions and coverpoints

 Debug the design issues and report through appropriate tools

 Code Coverage analysis and test case identification for improving the code

coverage.

 Perform timing simulations.

 Apply techniques and skills required to identify a root cause of a given issue and

very good debugging skills.

 Technical guidance to the junior engineers on verification tasks.

Qualifications

 Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering (Electronics and Communication or

VLSI )

 10+ years of Industry experience in development, integration & verification of

ASIC/FPGA.

 Protocols – PCIe, SPI, ARINC 429, Mil 1553, Image processing or similar.

 Hands on experience in developing System Verilog/UVM verification

environment from scratch.

 Hands on experience with Questa or similar advanced simulation tools.

 Hands on experience in DO-254 verification process.

 Experience in DOORS/Jama will be a plus.

 Experience in Video domain will be a plus.

About Company

Espressif Systems is a multinational, fabless semiconductor company established in 2008, with headquarters in Shanghai and offices in Greater China, India and Europe. We have a passionate team of engineers and scientists from all over the world, focused on developing cutting-edge WiFi-and-Bluetooth, low-power, IoT solutions. Among our popular products are the ESP8266 and ESP32 series of chips, modules and development boards. Espressif has opened a Technology Center in Pune(Baner), India, which will focus on embedded software engineering and IoT solutions development for our growing customers.

At Espressif, communication, collaboration and innovation are of paramount importance. That's why professionals and engineers from around the world have chosen to further their careers at Espressif Systems. They are passionate and committed to developing innovative products. And they are here to ensure that fast,secure and green IoT technology can be available to all. Come and join Espressif, so that you, too, can partake in Espressif's mission in the IoT industry.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• M.Tech/B. Tech in the field of VLSI/Electronics engineering. 
• Proficiency in UVM/SV and C/C++ based functional verification 
• Experience in UPF based low power design verification
• Automation skills in PERL and/or TCL and/or Shell* 
• Team player, with good problem solving and communication skills. 

JOB DESCRIPTION 

• Drive functional verification at IP/SoC level using UVM/SV test bench
• Work closely with design team to define comprehensive feature test plans
• Perform functional and code coverage for logic verification sign-off
• Must have worked on ARM/RISC-V CPU based designs
• Must have performed gate level sim at SoC level
• Pre and Post-silicon debug/validation experience will be a plus

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

• Energetic, self-motivated
• Pro-active, oriented on execution
• Attentive to details and quality
• Team player
• Good communications and reporting skills