Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Role Summary

Design and verify custom digital hardware components and architectures that enable high-performance AI/ML computation, focusing on Arago's custom tensor unit. Collaborate with system software, architecture, physical design, and CAD teams to deliver RTL, verification, and backend integration.

Experience Level

Senior. No specific years-of-experience requirement stated.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include designing RTL, building verification infrastructure, and supporting backend implementation:

• Design, implement, and verify RTL blocks for memory, control, and compute subsystems.
• Collaborate with system software and architecture teams to define block-level specifications and meet performance targets.
• Develop and maintain functional verification infrastructure for simulation and hardware testbenches.
• Support synthesis, timing analysis, and backend integration with physical design and CAD engineers.
• Contribute to architectural exploration and hardware–software co-design for future platform iterations.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and competencies; concise summary of required experience:

Must-have:

• Extensive RTL design experience in Verilog/SystemVerilog for control logic, datapaths, memory subsystems, and specialized processing units.
• Strong understanding of digital architecture: pipelining, arbitration, memory hierarchy, and system-level integration.
• Proficiency in functional verification: testbench development, assertions, coverage metrics, and debugging.
• Familiarity with ASIC and FPGA design flows, including synthesis, timing closure, and DFT.
• Experience across the full hardware stack from architectural specification and microarchitecture to physical implementation support.
• English proficiency (required).

Nice-to-have:

• UVM experience.
• French language skills.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Arago

Arago is an AI and computer hardware startup (founded 2024) developing AI-driven semiconductor and photonics solutions. The company brings together engineers and researchers in photonics, electronics, software, mathematics, and machine learning to accelerate prototype-to-silicon development across hubs in France, North America, and Israel.