Staff Hardware Design Engineer

Job Title

Staff Hardware Design Engineer

Role Summary

Design and deliver complete on-chip network systems and hardware blocks. The role leads architecture specification, verification strategy, and collaborates with hardware, software, and application engineering teams to ensure product cohesion, quality, and on-time delivery.

Experience Level

Senior — typically requires at least 10 years of relevant SoC/IP/NoC design experience.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include:

• Write architecture specifications for configurable on-chip networks and ensure coverage in design verification.
• Design, validate, and ensure quality of hardware blocks.
• Contribute to verification methodology and maintain regression environments.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure cohesive product integration.
• Maintain and improve existing IP in collaboration with application engineering.
• Provide technical support and mentorship to colleagues.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

• Minimum ~10 years experience in SoC/IP/NoC design.
• Experience with coherent and non-coherent communication protocols and control models (e.g., AMBA, PCIe, CXL, OCP) and familiarity with CPU architectures (ARM, RISC-V).
• Strong experience across SoC/IP design flow: specification, architecture, RTL coding, verification, DFT, synthesis, power and timing closure.
• Proficiency in HDLs and verification languages (SystemC, Verilog/VHDL/SystemVerilog) and backend EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor).
• Programming and scripting skills (C++, Python, other scripting languages).
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills; fluent English.

Education Requirements

Master's degree or Doctorate in engineering or computer science, or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: ArterisIP

Headquarters: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France

Provider of configurable on-chip interconnect IP and network-on-chip (NoC) solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) integration, offering interconnect fabrics, IP blocks, verification tools and engineering support to semiconductor and system companies.