Hardware - AI Chip Architect

Role Summary

About FuriosaAI

FuriosaAI builds high-performance, high-efficiency AI compute for the Inference Era. Founded in 2017 by veteran semiconductor and AI algorithm engineers, Furiosa operates globally with offices in Korea and Silicon Valley, along with a compiler-focused R&D lab in Lisbon.

Our vision is to make AI computing sustainable, enabling access to powerful AI for everyone on Earth. We solve the AI hardware energy and operational cost crisis at the architectural level, rather than through brute force, building the world's first truly AI-native compute platform to unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence for every enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture/microarchitecture specifications. Take ownership of one or more chip modules and implement them in RTL.
• Converge functionality and PPA of the design.
• Implement your designs in RTL (System Verilog or other HDLs) and iterate the design for optimal power, timing, and area.
• Create simple test benches and debug complex logic simulations.

At Furiosa, you will

• Solve AI’s Most Urgent Challenge. Help build the high-performance, energy-efficient inference hardware and software required to fulfill the promise of advanced AI.
• Pioneer Full-Stack Co-Design. Work with teams that are architecting solutions from silicon up through the compiler (featuring innovations like Tensor Contraction Language and Virtual ISA) and serving frameworks.
• Ship Real-World Silicon, Software, and Solutions. Turn breakthrough technology into commercial deployment. RNGD is in mass production with TSMC and running live enterprise workloads for global leaders like LG AI Research and Samsung SDS.
• Partner With the Industry's Best. Collaborate across an elite global ecosystem that includes TSMC, Broadcom, SK Hynix, and GUC.
• Do Your Life’s Best Work. Join a brilliant, low-ego, mission-driven team in a high-trust environment that values autonomy, intellectual curiosity, and shared ambition.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience in chip design, specializing in RTL design (architecture and implementation), logic synthesis, verification, and timing closure
• Experience in microprocessor simulator implementation in depth with C++ or other high-level languages
• Experience in modeling PPA of the design
• Experience in scripting languages to automate simulation and analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent practical experience is a plus
• Experience in accelerator design is a plus
• Experience with highly pipelined designs, and with multiple-clock-domain designs.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms, compiler, processor design, accelerators, and/or memory hierarchies.
• Experience with Chisel or RISC-V is a plus

Why Join FuriosaAI

• The defining bottleneck of the AI era is building the right hardware and software stack to run it at global scale. Furiosa is solving this challenge holistically from the ground up.
• With our flagship chip, RNGD, in mass production today and our next-generation platform in development with Broadcom, we are proving that full-stack, tensor-native compute is the future of AI infrastructure. This is a pivotal moment to join our team, right as we accelerate our global expansion.

Additional Information

• recruit@furiosa.ai