SoC Hardware Design Engineer
(Hybrid, London)
Overview
We’re excited to expand our hardware engineering team and are looking for a SoC Hardware Design Engineer who is interested in working with pioneers in the Quantum & AI fields to build our proprietary hardware
Experience an exciting growth journey – you’ll be one of our key early employees with and have the opportunity to influence and shape our technology and the direction of the team as we grow
The SECQAI environment is highly collaborative, where the team is laser focused on building great product for our customers
Joining an early-stage company, you’ll get a stake in our shared success through our generous employee option programme
Get to know SECQAI
SECQAI is a British semiconductor company focused on fixing today's and tomorrow's security vulnerabilities from the ground up. We enable the next generation of secure computing at the edge through our groundbreaking products.
What the job involves
Help us create industry-defining hardware products – you’re an early employee in the tech team, so your role will be varied!
Contribute to the design and development of our next generation AI & security hardware solutions, focusing on the development and implementation of Integrated Circuits (ICs) across both Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
Developing and specifying microarchitectures for our SoC IP, working with the broader component design team to deliver effective and secure product
Implement 3rd party IP where appropriate from our supplier partners
Be responsible for taking concepts all the way from ideation to delivery: work collaboratively with other engineers on our team to deliver on the overall product, and interface with our fab partners, taking design through proof of concept to GDS and scale production
Document and demonstrate the solutions you come up to the team along the way
Proactively look to continuously improve on the solutions you build
This is a hybrid role, with a mixture of working from home and in the office. We know how important it is to build in a customer-centric way, so you may be asked to travel to meet SECQAI’s customers and partners in person
Maintaining the highest standards of integrity: you’ll protect SECQAI’s operations and that of our clients by maintaining confidentiality at all times
Who you are
Required:
MSc electrical engineering, or a Bachelor’s or Master’s in a related field
Industry experience with SoC microarchitectures (e.g. x86, ARM, RISC, SPARC, MIPS)
Your hardware engineering skills are complemented by software skills (e.g. SysVerilog/VHDL, C/ C++/ Assembly, HLS or Python)
You’ve successfully taped out in industry
You’re inquisitive and a self-starter. You love learning, solving problems outside of your comfort zone, starting new things and taking them through to production, all the while learning from your mistakes
You enjoy collaborating with and supporting a wide range of peers and mentors
You set a high bar for your own work (both how it works, and how it looks)
Desirable
You have experience in FPGA Design and Verification using VHDL and/or Verilog
You have familiarity with DSP, use of IP modules and hybrid CPU/FPGA schemes
You have knowledge and experience on setting up an ASIC verification environment
You have knowledge of Bus interfaces like PCIE or AXI
You have integration experience with third party IPs
You have experience scripting for experimental control and data analysis
You’re interested in building secure systems and platforms, interfacing complex systems, and have knowledge of relevant security standards
You’re interested in ensuring transparency, observability and alerting within mission-critical distributed systems
You have practical experience as a technical lead through the full hardware development lifecycle, from conception, architecture definition, design, simulation, planning, implementation, fabrication, testing to documentation and maintenance
Just so you know, if you don’t think you fit all the criteria, but you have what it takes to make an impact as an Engineer at SECQAI, we’d love to have a chat – you might be a great fit.
The perks
Competitive Salary
Generous employee option programme
Opportunity to work collaboratively with leaders in the field
Opportunity to help shape and build the technical side of the organisation
Benefits package: we’re committed to evolving the benefits package as we grow. Don’t forget, you’re one of the first technical hires so this is still being developed. On joining, we’ll want to hear what matters to you so we can shape the right package for our teams (in addition to your favourite snack for our snack cupboard...)
Application process:
Send us your CV with a short paragraph on why you want to work with us (contact@secqai.com)
Initial interview with our COO
Technical discussion with our CEO
Final interview with one of our other team members
We expect the process to take 2-3 weeks, but we can move faster if need be – just let us know