Neuromorphic Front-End Silicon Lead - United States
$220,920 - $311,890 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 September 2026 by the employer — open 17 days.
About the role
This role involves leading the design and verification of neuromorphic chiplets and IP.
What you'll do
- Engage with architects and AI researchers to identify hardware innovations and translate them into implementable microarchitectures.
- Lead a team responsible for design implementation and verification through post-silicon validation.
- Partner with physical/custom design engineers and co-design critical custom circuits.
- Evaluate, select, and integrate internal and external IP, including I/O interfaces.
- Work with software and systems teams to enable development and ensure smooth post-silicon bring-up.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen design and verification practices as the program scales.
What you'll need
- MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of hands-on design experience in processors, accelerators, SoCs, or custom ASICs.
- 5+ years of experience with RTL design (Verilog/SystemVerilog) and modern ASIC flows (synthesis, timing closure, CDC/RDC, formal, DFV).
- 3+ years leading silicon design and/or verification teams.
Nice to have
- PhD with a research background in hardware acceleration, especially AI.
- Experience with advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration technologies (e.g., chiplets, UCIe, 2.5D/3D).
- Experience with asynchronous design methods and custom memory/circuit co-design.
- Experience with pre-silicon enablement via emulation or FPGA prototyping.
- Experience with low-power (UPF) methods and security features such as Root of Trust and secure boot.
- History of technical ownership on multiple product tape-outs.
Skills: neuromorphic chiplets, AI accelerator, RTL design, SoC integration, advanced packaging
This role has been open 17 days — well below the 67-day median for AI/ML Hardware Engineering roles.
AI/ML Hardware Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
516
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Median days open
67 d
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Median salary
$232k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (516 roles · 76 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 516 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 156 | 5829 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 67 d (−48 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $232k |
Skills observed across this category: neuromorphic chiplets, AI accelerator, RTL design, SoC integration, advanced packaging
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 106 open roles · median 99 d
- NVIDIA · 85 open roles · median 67 d
- AMD · 43 open roles · median 62 d
- Micron Technology · 32 open roles · median 39 d
- Mobileye · 25 open roles · median 53 d
- Analog Devices · 14 open roles · median 24 d
How we counted: 516 open AI/ML Hardware Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 76 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.