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Staff CAD Design Verification Engineer

Untether AIToronto, Ontario, CanadaHybrid, Onsite
Untether AI is building the world’s highest performance pure-digital AI inference chip. We’re a rapidly growing Toronto-based startup, with employees across Canada and the US (and even a few outside North America). Our novel architecture is already in customer hands, providing unparalleled performance and energy efficiency. We are investing in design automation in a big way in order to make it as seamless as possible for our engineers to design and implement the next generations of our product line.   
As our new CAD DV Engineer, you will define the design verification flow, lead EDA tools evaluation process and roll-out, architect and implement verification framework.You know from past experience what an efficient design verification system should look like. At Untether AI, you’ll have an opportunity to champion infrastructure and methodology improvements. The successful candidate will have prior experience in both design verification and CAD areas.

Requirements


  • 10+ years of experience:
  • Hands-on knowledge of RTL Simulation and  Formal Verification flows
  • Knowledge of UVM and SystemVerilog
  • Experience with various verification tasks - test plan development, test bench development, simulation/waveform debug, coverage analysis
  • Working with EDA tools in the design verification industry
  • Developing flows and scripts to support EDA tools
  • Experience driving vendors AEs to resolve technical issues
  • Excellent programming and Unix skills (Python, Makefiles, Shell, TCL)
  • Minimum BS degree in EE/CE/CS, or equivalent

Preferred Skills & Experience


  • Experience developing custom scripts and software to improve team efficiency beyond what off the shelf EDA tools can provide
  • Evaluating, installing, and supporting tools to meet team needs
  • Emulation and FPGA prototyping
  • Gate-level simulation
  • Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS)
  • AI assist verification tools/techniques
  • Knowledge of common design flows:
  • Digital Circuit Design: Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis (DC/PT/Spyglass)
  • CI/CD regressions management with Jenkins or similar tools

What are some of the perks that you will receive being part of Untether AI?


  • Aligned to Untether’s philosophy, our employees enjoy the same perks, regardless of role or level.  In part, these include:
  • 20 vacation days
  • Strong health and extended health benefits
  • Unlimited sick days
  • Stock options
  • Building chips and software that will change the world

Thinking about applying?


  • We’re a pretty welcoming bunch of people.  If we’ve piqued your interest, you’re passionate about the same things we are but you aren’t sure if you check all the boxes, please apply anyway. We’re a great place to work, an even better place to learn and we focus on both capability and potential!
  • Besides being a pretty friendly group, we’re also pretty diverse - ethnically, experientially and in our physical and mental abilities.  If you are someone who needs accommodation during the interview process and/or in the workplace, please send a note along with your resume to careers@untether.ai and we’ll be in touch.

A little bit more about Untether AI:


Untether AI has developed a groundbreaking new architecture that brings neural net inference to new levels of performance and efficiency.  We’ve already sold our product to smart clients who want to get in at ground zero.  We’ve done this while continuing to improve our technology creating ultra-efficient, high performance AI chips that eliminates the data movement bottleneck that costs energy and performance in traditional architectures.  We’re a team made up of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs and have the support of tier one investors.

We recently received $125 million in our series B funding round which enables us to expand our customer engagements, enhance our software offering, and build the next generation of industry leading AI inference products. Join us to be part of something big - a chance to create the future of AI.Apply for this job

Life at Untether AI

Untether AI was founded in 2018, and is developing ultra-efficient, high-performance AI chips to enable new frontiers in AI applications. By combining the power efficiency of near-memory design with the robustness of digital processing, Untether AI has developed a groundbreaking new chip architecture for neural net inference that moves data 1,000 times faster. Founded in Toronto, by a team of scientists, engineers and experienced entrepreneurs who have successfully brought to market over 1 billion chips, Untether AIᅢᄁ¬ツᆲ¬トᄁs founding team includes Martin Snelgrove, Darrick Wiebe and Raymond Chik.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Aligned to Untether's philosophy2. Strong health and extended health benefits3. Unlimited sick days4. Stock options5. Building chips and software that will change the world6. 20 vacation days7. Welcoming work environment8. Diverse team valuing different backgrounds, experiences, and abilities9. Support of tier one investors10. Expanded customer engagements, enhanced software offering, next-generation AI inference products

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