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Digital Design Engineer

Xcelerium
Irvine, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/12/2026

About Xcelerium:

Xcelerium is a fabless semiconductor company established in 2020 by experienced team from Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom. Xcelerium develops silicon and software for sensor processing, communications and latency-sensitive AI applications. Working at Xcelerium will provide an opportunity to work on a complex development from the ground up and become familiar with cutting edge technologies such as RISC-V, digital signal processing, machine learning, many-core parallel processing using CUDA/OpenCL, inner workings of frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenGL, real-time operating systems and embedded In addition, the application domains will be 5G, UAVs/Drone, Robots, and Autonomous Vehicles which provide enormous scope for growth and making an impact.


Job Summary:

As an ASIC RTL Design Engineer, you will work on developing and implementing cutting-edge complex digital designs, SoCs, and industry-leading RISC-V cores. You will collaborate with the RTL design team, firmware team, and physical implementation team to optimize the design for performance, power efficiency, and area.


Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and implement high-performance, low-power, and area-efficient digital designs for ASICs and SoCs using industry-standard EDA tools.
  • Microarchitecture development and specification. Ensure that knowledge is shared via great documentation and participation in a culture of collaborative design.
  • Work with physical implementation team to implement and optimize physical design to meet frequency, area, power goals.
  • Collaborate with performance modelling team for performance exploration and optimization to meet performance goals.


Technical Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering from a reputable institution
  • 5 years of relevant professional experience
  • Excellent understanding of logic design using hardware description languages like Verilog/SystemVerilog is required.
  • Familiarity with processor architecture, memory and cache subsystems, on-chip interconnects and network-on-chip technology
  • Familiarity with either UVM based verification flow
  • Familiarity with RTL to GDS design flow is required
  • Knowledge of RISC-V architectures is a strong plus
  • Strong programming skills in Python, C/C , Chisel or assembly language is highly desirable
  • Experience with fixed point arithmetic and data path design is desirable

Other Requirements

  • Passion for learning new technologies
  • Taking pride in always producing high quality code and documentation
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Comfortable and willing to work with team members from different disciplines, different levels and across time-zones


Location: on-site in Irvine, CA

Alternate locations: Santa Clara, CA; San Diego, CA

Job Type: Full-time


Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

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