Company Description

Pradhi Semiconductor Private Limited is a stealth-mode, Indian fabless semiconductor company focused on developing a product line and ecosystem for RISC-V SoC products.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Principal Design Engineer, located in Hyderabad. Our SoC Engineering division is seeking a Principal Design Engineer to join 5G MPU product development team. As we continue to grow, we need talented engineers responsible for the development of products across Enterprise markets

Qualifications

• Play a key role in the development of digital IP micro-architecture and design in 5G wireless APUs
• Be responsible for all aspects of digital IC design, from platform architecture to RTL design and verification
• Crafting design micro-architecture specifications, developing RTL, fixing bugs, performing design checks and generating of implementation constraints.
• Reconfigurable IP / Subsystem design; Power, Reset and Clock domain crossing; Static design checks like linting, CDC/RDC, RTL+UPF, X-propagation
• Drive micro-architecture definition, specifications, and RTL design reviews.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance in RTL design, design partitioning, clock/power domains, resets, and interface specification.
• Own RTL quality metrics (lint, CDC, RDC, synthesis QoR, timing closure readiness).
• Build and drive RTL schedules, milestones, and delivery checkpoints.
• Own RTL sign-off criteria and ensure design readiness for downstream verification, emulation, and physical design.
• Lead integration of third-party IPs (PCIe, HBM/DDR, NoC, security, compute cores, interconnect fabric).
• Work with cross functional teams: DV, Arch, PD, compiler and SW/FW teams.
• Establish digital design methodologies to ensure product quality and project execution
• Providing technical direction, mentoring, and leadership

Your Profile

You are best equipped for this task if you have:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or similar technical field
• Minimum 10 years of experience in digital IC design
• Proven ability to contribute/lead successful products to high volume production
• Experience building SoCs with embedded cores (e.g., RISC-V, ARM, Tensilica, CEVA).
• Experience with DSP or implementation of digital control algorithms is a plus
• Experience with microcontroller and microprocessor-based designs.
• Expert understanding of computer architecture, SoC components, RTL Design, and Sub 10nm designs.
• Hands-on expertise with Verilog based RTL coding and microarchitecture, especially around integrating 3rd party I/Ps such as interfaces, Security, Boot, SRAM, DMA controllers, NOC, and processor I/Ps.
• Solid understanding in timing, pipelining, and microarchitecture.
• Should have solid understanding of industry standard tool and flows for RTL design.
• Experience with ARM-based or RISC-V processors, IP and bus architectures is a plus. Understanding of SoC protocols including AXI/CHI/CXS.B/CXL/PCIE/UA-Link
• Very good understanding of synthesis, timing closure, DFT flow (SCAN/IDDQ/MBIST), physical design
• Perl, Python or other scripting language
• Strong communication skills and ability to establish lasting relationships and networks
• Experience working with remote IC design/layout teams across different time zones in a collaborative environment
• You enjoy developing your leadership skills and working on your team’s development

If interested, please email your resume to jobs@pradhisemi.com