Audio Hardware Engineer

Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, has entered into an agreement to acquire a large, multi-national sensor business with global revenues in excess of $250 million per year, and is looking for an experienced and talented Audio Hardware Engineer .

The Audio Hardware Engineer will be responsible for developing Audio Front End processing in Syntiant's next generation Neural Decision Processor SoCs. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can execute all design cycle tasks from architecture to tapeout as well as silicon bring-up and validation while working with cross-disciplinary teams (Design, Firmware, Product, OPS & Field Engineering).

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Microarchitecture and implementation of multiple logic blocks of Audio Front End.
• Integrate and verify design blocks at chip level
• Quality checks of the implemented RTL with LINT, CDC and DFT rules with clear documentation of exceptions and waivers
• Synthesis, constraints and timing closure for the SoC
• Optimize power consumption
• Participate in silicon bring-up, validation and characterization
• Provide quality documentation of the implementation and other deliverables with systematic reviews.
• Work with cross functional teams to debug and resolve platform and customer issues

Requirements

• Advanced degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
• Track record of 'first-pass success' in ASIC development cycles
• 7+ years of experience with Audio Hardware development using SystemVeilog/SystemC
• Proven track record of FFT and Digital Filter Design for audio, e.g. FIR, IIR, CIC, Butterworth
• Experience with Adaptive Resampling Filter design is a big plus, e.g. Farrow Re-sampler
• Experience with Dynamic Gain Control design for audio
• Experience with Synthesis, constraint development and timing closure
• Experience with design quality checks (Lint, CDC, DFT rules)
• Experience with scripting languages, e.g. Python
• Experience with digital filter design using High Level Synthesis (HLS) with SystemC is a big plus
• Experience with Xtensa HIFI DSP is a plus
• Experience with silicon bring up and debug as well as developing chip demo