RTL Design Engineer

Experience: 3.00 + years

Salary: INR 2680000-3750000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 30 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: Architect Labs)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - Architect Labs)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Must have skills required:

emulation, Flexibility, tapeout, Data Analysis, Verilog/System-Verilog, RTL, synthesis, Unit Level testing, Python, typescripts, SoC integration

Architect Labs is Looking for:

As a RTL/Design Engineer at Architect Labs, youll redefine the hardware design and verification process, methodology, and tools using our proprietary AI models and systems. In that context, we are seeking mid-level front-end hardware engineers to help build and curate high-quality RTL and verification datasets for AI training and evaluation. You’ll work on reviewing, debugging, coding, labeling, and generating Verilog/SystemVerilog designs, unit-level testing, and POC design development and verification.

Responsibilities

• Write, review, debug+fix and annotate code, waveform, specs, and hardware documents for model training and evaluation datasets.
• Design & validate modular RTL designs (FIFOs, ALUs, NoCs, etc.) using our models and tools to advance our AI-enabled IP generation efforts.
• Curate, document, and label RTL bugs, coding methods, and architectural definitions.
• Help in prompt-tuning, generating rules and guardrails for our RTl coding agents and models.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to build evaluation datasets, internal benchmarks, and evaluate model behavior and performance on RTL code.
• Log quality metrics and tabulate for functionality, syntax, style, and completeness.
• Partner with architects, validation engineers for documentation of in-house design.
• Develop POC designs, partnering with architects, validation, and AI engineers
• Synthesize eval & POC designs, own hand-off-to-backend quality convergence.
• Evaluate PPA metrics, tabulate convergence progress, and send daily reports.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelors (or more) degree; 3+ years experience in RTL design (SystemVerilog).
• Experience in end-to-end design flow - design, linting, ULT and synthesis,
• Familiarity with standard EDA tool flows from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens.
• Automation(Python, etc) skills for scoping & templatizing design flows and tasks.
• Familiarity with SoC integration and design principles.
  
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field from a Tier-1 institution (IITs, IIITs, BITS Pilani, NIT Trichy/Surathkal/ Warangal, etc.).
• Strong academic and research orientation is a plus.
  
  
  

Preferred:

• Experienced in at least one product-level tape-out.
• Data analytics skills, data annotation experience.
• Flexibility in work hours, sync with PST timeline when needed.
• Bonus if graduated from a top university like IIT, VIT, IISC, SRM, BITS, etc.
  
  
  

Collaboration & Time Zone

• You’ll work remotely from India but collaborate daily with the Palo Alto team.
• Must have excellent written and spoken English communication, clear, concise, and proactive.
• Expect regular standups and sprint syncs with California (typically between 8–11 PM IST/ 7–10 AM PST).
• We value responsiveness, initiative, and a sense of ownership that transcends time zones.
  
  
  

Interview Process

• Technical R1 (Code writing)
• Technical R2 (Technical discussions + Live Coding + Behavioural)
  
  
  

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