About the Company

Welcome to Codasip. We believe Codasip is the most innovative processor solutions company. We take pride in designing and developing cutting-edge, high-performance, and energy-efficient CPU cores from scratch, along with our own automated proprietary tools to fully customize them. We give our customers a unique competitive advantage by empowering their system-on-chip developers to build the most innovative products.

Our processor cores are based on the RISC-V open architecture. The potential for customizing RISC-V is unlocked with the Codasip Custom Compute approach: our unique architecture description language, CodAL, and the powerful automated processor design tool, Codasip Studio. These are at the heart of our unique and groundbreaking RISC-V processor solutions.

Founded in 2014, we've grown into a thriving and talented global community. Our IP engineering teams work from offices spread across Europe, including our first and largest design center in Brno, Czechia. We have design teams in Cambridge, Bristol, Munich, Villeneuve-Loubet, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, and Athens. The Codasip team is also based close to its customers, with dedicated sales and application engineers in the USA, Japan, Korea, and China.

Codasip is a private company backed by well-funded EU grants. Our products are already making a real impact, with billions of devices in the market powered by our processor IP and tools.

About our UK Design Centres

Our UK design centres in Cambridge and Bristol were set up in early 2022 to develop high performance, low power embedded and application CPU cores from scratch. We are embarking on clean-sheet designs and need people who can establish high-quality working practices under the guidance of the Senior CPU Design Manager. These projects are highly complex, with usually one person being responsible for owning a portion of the design.

About the Role

Job Title: Senior Hardware Engineer
Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom / Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Hybrid HW (IP) Engineering

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the microarchitecture of RISC-V processors and extensions.
• Develop processors within the Codasip Architectural Language (CodAL).
• Undertake design synthesis and results analysis to ensure PPA targets are met.
• Collaborate closely with the verification team on verification planning, debugging, and final sign-off.
• Write technical specifications and documentation.
• Participate in design and verification reviews.
• Define, estimate, and track your own work.

Requirements

You Should Have:

• Over 5 years of recent and relevant module design experience within at least one HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog).
• Knowledge of computer systems and architecture.
• Ability to write clear and concise code.
• Experience with digital circuit simulation.
• User knowledge of Linux.
• Knowledge of versioning tools (Git, SVN).
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Shell, Bash, Python).
• Strong analytical thinking, self-sufficiency, and team collaboration skills.
• Ability to work across teams to debug issues and find root causes.

Nice-to-Have:

• Knowledge of RISC-V instruction set.
• Advanced knowledge of computer systems and architecture.
• Experience in Synthesis, Design for Test, and Timing Analysis.
• Experience in low power design techniques.
• Experience in Formal verification techniques.
• Knowledge of C/C++.

Benefits

Joining Codasip’s founding UK team is a chance to challenge yourself with complicated projects and structure how we do design. The best candidates are decisive, proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, opinionated yet collaborative, and passionate about continuous improvement as we scale up and disrupt the semiconductor industry.

This position can be based in either our Cambridge or Bristol offices. It is a hybrid role where you will be expected to be in the office a few days per week, with flexible work-from-home options available.

At Codasip, we are committed to fostering a creative and collaborative work environment. Codasippers have the freedom to explore original ideas and experiment with new techniques. We believe in the benefits of cross-departmental collaboration and encourage sharing to build awareness throughout the teams.

When you join Codasip, you become part of a motivated team of self-starters where your ideas are appreciated and your voice is heard. We strive to create an environment where your ambition can flourish and your career can reach new heights. Join our team of architects of ambition; we can't wait to see what you'll achieve at Codasip.