Digital Design Engineer

About OLIX

AI is growing faster than any technology in history and the explosion in demand has created a massive infrastructure gap; we can no longer build chips or power stations fast enough to keep up. The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance.

The Role

We are seeking highly skilled and motivated Senior/Staff Digital Design Engineers with a strong focus on CMOS digital design to take end-to-end ownership of high-speed, real-time data-processing silicon, from early algorithm modelling to verified RTL and silicon bring-up. You will join a multidisciplinary group creating next-generation hardware where digital, optical and mixed-signal domains intersect. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical engineering and semiconductor physics, along with a passion for developing reliable, high-performance digital circuits that drive breakthrough AI hardware.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and implement high‑throughput digital pipelines (multi‑GSPS input rate, continuous streaming data paths, deep pipelining and hand‑shaking) in advanced CMOS nodes

• Prototype and iterate rapidly in FPGA (Xilinx/AMD, Intel, or equivalent): bring‑up real‑time demos, exercise high‑speed transceivers, and feed learnings back into the ASIC

• Model algorithms and validate concepts in MATLAB/Simulink (or equivalent), ensuring functional equivalence through to gate‑level sign‑off

• Own RTL development (SystemVerilog / Verilog / VHDL) including synthesis, static‑timing closure, formal and constrained‑random verification

• Analyse power, performance and area (PPA); implement innovative techniques to achieve aggressive bandwidth‑per‑watt targets

• Collaborate with optical‑hardware, mixed‑signal and software teams to optimise data‑converter interfaces, clock‑domain crossings and firmware abstractions

• Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews and champion best‑practice design methodologies

Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of hands‑on digital design for high‑performance ASICs or SoCs, including ownership of at least one product that processes a continuous real‑time data stream