Design Engineer

About Celestial AI

As the industry strives to meet the demands of the AI workloads, bottlenecks in data transfers between processors and memory have hindered progress. The Photonic Fabric based Memory Fabric provides an optically scalable solution to the ‘Memory Wall’ problem, enabling tens of Terabytes of memory capacity at full HBM bandwidths with low tens of nanoseconds of latency and extremely low power. The Photonic Fabric based Compute Fabric enables Terabyte class bandwidth between compute nodes at low latency and power. Photonic Fabric delivers a transformative leap in AI system performance, ten years more advanced than existing technologies.

Job Description:

In this role you will drive the innovative, high speed analog architecture for low-power, high-performance AMS solutions customized for AI application.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Top-down architectural analysis of AMS systems.
• Develop understanding of the digital and photonics subsystem and associated requirements on the AMS sub system.
• Utilize knowledge general concepts of high-performance analog design and compare various topologies that best fit the AMS architecture to support AI application requirements.
• Enhance system performance using digitally assisted analog techniques and appropriate partitioning of analog and digital circuits.
• Drive transistor-level feasibility study for various AMS circuits.
• Define design specifications and verification plans.
• Define production and bench-level test plans.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Requires Master’s Degree with 6+ years of experience in related areas of expertise or PhD with 3+ years of experience.
• Experience with architecture, design, and production expertise in the following areas:
  • High-speed data converter architectures and circuits
  • Ultra-low-power analog circuits.
  • Digitally assisted analog circuits.
• You should be highly skilled in the following areas:
  • MATLAB/Simulink/Verilog A modeling.
  • Data converter architectures and design trade-offs
  • Low-power and high-precision analog techniques.
  • Architect circuit solutions that achieve challenging noise, linearity, power consumption, and silicon area requirements.
  • AMS design flows and chip assembly techniques.
  • Working with design, layout, and production test engineers.
  • Excellent communication skills are necessary to work with multiple domain experts, such as digital/VLSI, AI/ML, Photonics, and packaging.

Location: This role can be based out of Santa Clara, CA, Orange County, CA or Toronto, Ontario, Canada

For California location:

As an early startup experiencing explosive growth, we offer an extremely attractive total compensation package, inclusive of competitive base salary and a generous grant of our valuable early-stage equity. The target base salary for this role is approximately $175,000.00 - $225,000.00. The base salary offered may be slightly higher or lower than the target base salary, based on the final scope as determined by the depth of the experience and skills demonstrated by candidate in the interviews.

We offer great benefits (health, vision, dental and life insurance), collaborative and continuous learning work environment, where you will get a chance to work with smart and dedicated people engaged in developing the next generation architecture for high performance computing.

Celestial AI Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

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