Innovation Engineer

Codasip was founded on a simple belief – we could bring together the brilliance of microprocessor architects and software engineers and capture it in tools that made design simpler, faster, and less expensive. The company was created in 2014 with the mission of democratizing processor design. Nowadays Codasip is a leading supplier of processing solutions for IC designers, offering products based on open standards such as the RISC-V ISA, LLVM, and UVM.

Senior Computer Engineer R&D

Job description

• • Department: Labs
  • Employment: Full-time
  • Experience: Senior (PhD or MSc with 5+ of industrial experience)
  • Location: Czech Republic

You are going to cooperate closely with Pavel Zaykov,  Zdeněk Přikryl, Dave Higham, Peter Robertson.

General info

• • We are looking for a Sr. Computer Engineer to join our innovation team at Codasip Labs. The candidate will work on the NimbleAI and SYCLOPS projects which are co-funded by the European Commission and are part of the Horizon Europe framework. The projects are focused on the R&D of next-generation high-performance, low-power, and secure artificial intelligence (AI) processors based on the RISC-V architecture.

Main responsibilities:

• • Innovate, develop, integrate, and evaluate state-of-the-art (micro-)architectural IP cores in Codasip Studio (primarily written in Codasip Studio’s processor description language, CodAL) for the next generation of AI-capable processors based on the RISC-V architecture.
  • Customize existing Codasip RISC-V IP cores to satisfy partners’/ customers’ requirements
  • Develop middle-ware SW for fast adoption of the newly proposed extensions.
  • Lead Codasip contribution to project deliverables and collaborate with academic and industrial partners on joint proof-of-concept demos.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Write scientific papers, and report technical results at international conferences, and project review meetings.

Qualifications

• • Strong background in Computer architecture and embedded systems.
  • CodAL programming knowledge is not required but some experience in HLS (e.g., C++/Matlab/SystemC) is needed.
  • Programming skills: C/ C++/ Assembly, HLS, and scripting languages (bash, Python).
  • Experience with VHDL/Verilog.
  • Fluent written and spoken English is essential.
  • Excellent communication skills, pragmatic, proactive, self-motivated, team player.