Hardware Validation Lead Engineer

Overview

Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, is seeking to hire an exceptional full-time Design Integrator and Tester to join our PCIe / CXL Validation team in Aix-en-Provence, France. In this role, you will be working with some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world developing products that make data faster and safer.  

As a Design Integrator and Tester, you’ll play a pivotal role in RAMBUS brand new IPs integration on the latest FPGA technologies allowing to show our Ips are silicon proven. 

This full-time position will allow the candidate to develop reference designs for Rambus IPs, custom designs for customers’ needs and innovative demos for trade shows.   

The role will involve simulation of the designs, synthesis, timing closure and integration in Hardware using cutting edge FPGA (Agilex-I / Virtex-Ultrascale / Versal Premium) pushed to their limit. This also involves in-system debug on advanced server platforms.  

In this full-time role, you’ll report directly to our Hardware Validation Manager. Our Hardware Validation team is dedicated to proving our IPs are functional in real environments, which is the last milestone before we can deliver high quality products to our customers, and your contributions will be instrumental in integrating and validating latest Rambus Soft IPs.  

Rambus offers a flexible work environment, embracing a hybrid approach for most office-based roles. Employees are encouraged to spend an average of at least three days per week onsite, allowing for two days of remote work.  

Responsibilities

• Define reference design / example architectures to best demonstrate features of Rambus PCIe / CXL controller IP  

• Develop (Verilog) these designs  

• Perform simulation with various simulators  

• Perform FPGA synthesis implementation flow  

• Perform timing closure 

• Manage SLR crossing 

• Perform HW Test and debug on cutting edge platforms  

• Integration of Real Time Operating Systems on FPGA/SOC CPUs (Versal Premium) 

• Development (RTL, Hardware, software) of innovative demos and represent Rambus on Tradeshows  

Qualifications

• Bac 4/ 5 or more in Electrical science, Computer science or equivalent.  

• 5 years of experience with RTL Design in FPGA and hardware integration  

• Good English skills, communication skills, and willingness to work with an international team.   

Additional Desirable skills  

• RTL Simulation : Questa / VCS / NCSIM   

• FPGA flows : Vivado / Quartus   

• Timing closure, debugging : Verilog (Quartus/Vivado)  

• RTOS skills on last generation SOC  (Versal Premium) 

• PCIe/CXL knowledge 

• CI : Python  / Jenkins / GIT  

About Rambus 

Rambus is a global company that makes industry-leading memory interface chips and Silicon IP to advance data center connectivity and solve the bottleneck between memory and processing. With over 30 years of semiconductor experience, we are a leading provider of high-performance products and innovations that maximize the bandwidth, capacity and security for AI and other data-intensive workloads. Our world-class team is the foundation of our company, and our innovative spirit drives us to develop the cutting-edge products and technologies essential for tomorrow’s systems.  

Rambus offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, bonus, equity and employee benefits. 

Rambus is committed to cultivating a culture where we actively seek to understand, respect, and celebrate the complex and rich identities of ourselves and others. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are geared towards valuing the differences in backgrounds, experiences, and thoughts at Rambus to help enhance collaboration, teamwork, engagement, and innovation. At Rambus, we believe that we can be our best when every member of our organization feels respected, included, and heard. 

 Rambus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  

Rambus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during our job application procedures. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please feel free to inform us in your application. 

Rambus does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services. 

For more information about Rambus, visit rambus.com. For additional information on life at Rambus and our current openings, check out rambus.com/careers/. 

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