Principal Hardware Design Engineer & uArchitect of Processors & Accelerators

GREEK DESIGN CENTER

Codasip is expanding in Greece! We are looking for a Principal/Team Lead Design & uArchitect Engineer to build out our team and help deliver and expand our product roadmap. The role can be based in Athens, Thessaloniki, or Heraklion and will be reporting to Giorgos Nikiforos who is the Director of the Greek Design Center.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing company with a unique position in the industry. If you are proactive, you are not afraid to voice your own opinion, and are looking for a job where you can be creative, we think you will work well with us.

Together with our well-organized and highly collaborative international teams, located in the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain, and the UK, you will be responsible for the development of the core or of the accelerator microarchitecture.

YOUR ROLE:

• Be a leading member of our design team providing a leading role in a significant part of the CPU microarchitecture
• Be responsible for the microarchitecture definition and implementation of RISC-V processors and components and leading a small team to deliver
• Processor development in our architecture language (CodAL)
• Working closely with the verification team on verification planning, debugging, and final sign-off
• Synthesis (timing and area optimizations) to ensure PPA targets can be met
• Participate in and drive design and verification review
  

Requirements

YOU SHOULD HAVE:

• Over 5-10 years of recent and relevant experience with at least one HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog)
• Advanced knowledge of CPU architecture
• Ability to write clear and concise code
• Experience with digital circuit simulation
• User knowledge of Linux
• Knowledge of versioning tools (Git, SVN)
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Shell, Bash, Python)
• Analytical thinking, self-sufficiency, team collaboration
• Ability to work across teams to debug issues and find root causes

NICE-TO-HAVE:

• Knowledge of RISC-V instruction set
• Advanced knowledge of computer systems and architecture
• Experience with Synthesis, Design for Test and Timing Analysis
• Knowledge of C/C++

• Experience with Formal Verification concepts

Benefits

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

• Opportunity to work with RISC-V, computer architecture of the future
• Working on innovative IoT processors and unique processor optimization technology
• Participation in the whole development process from analysis to deployment
• Opportunity to collaborate with experienced developers located in Germany, France, UK, Greece and the Czech Republic
• Receptivity to your own innovations and ideas
• Freedom and trust from Codasip management
• Flexible working hours, including working from home
• Very competitive compensation package
• Language courses (Chinese, Czech)
  

WELCOME TO CODASIP

We believe Codasip is the most innovative processor solutions company. We take pride in designing and developing cutting-edge, high-performance, and energy-efficient CPU cores from scratch, and our own automated proprietary tools to fully customize them. We give our customers a unique competitive advantage by empowering their system-on-chip developers to build the most innovative products.

Our processor cores are based on the RISC-V open architecture. The potential for customizing RISC-V is unlocked with the Codasip Custom Compute approach: our unique architecture description language, CodAL, and the powerful automated processor design tool, Codasip Studio. These are at the heart of our unique and groundbreaking RISC-V processor solutions.

Founded in 2014, we've grown into a thriving and talented global community. Our IP engineering teams work from offices spread across Europe, including our first and largest design center in the beautiful city of Brno, Czechia. Across Europe, we already have design teams in Cambridge, Bristol, Munich, Villeneuve-Loubet, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Heraklion and Athens. The Codasip team is also based close to its customers, which means we have dedicated sales and application engineers in the USA, Japan, Korea, and China.

Codasip is a private company backed by well-funded EU grants. Our products are already making a real impact, with billions of devices already in the market powered by our processor IP and tools.

WANT TO BE AN ARCHITECT OF AMBITION. JOIN CODASIP!

At Codasip we are committed to fostering a creative and collaborative work environment. Codasippers have the freedom to explore original ideas and experiment with new techniques. We believe in the benefits of cross-departmental collaboration and encourage sharing to build awareness throughout the teams. This enables you to add value through variety in your work.

When you join Codasip, you become part of a motivated team of self-starters where your ideas are appreciated and your voice is heard. We strive to create an environment where your ambition can flourish and your career can reach new heights. So, come and join our team of architects of ambition. We can't wait to see what you'll achieve at Codasip.