Lead Digital Design Engineer

Riverlane’s mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions. Large and reliable quantum computers have the potential to turn fields like clean energy, drug design and aerospace upside down. We’re building the Operating System for these pioneering new machines, leading the world to tackle quantum computing’s defining challenge: error correction. We’re growing fast and making remarkable progress.

You will join our cross-disciplinary team of software developers, mathematicians, quantum information theorists, computational chemists and physicists – all world experts in their fields. Our collaborative, close-knit team has a track record of delivering high-quality R&D across the full quantum stack. As a growing company, you will have the freedom to think independently and creatively, as well as contribute to Riverlane's business development.

As a Lead Digital Design Engineer you will work on the complete ASIC/FPGA product development flow, starting from understanding the problem space, specifying the architecture, developing the micro-architecture, writing RTL and then taking the design through to implementation to obtain the best possible power, performance and area. You will also work with the research team to optimize algorithms to be accelerated using hardware and the software team for post silicon bring up and validation.

Prior knowledge of quantum computing is not required for this role.

• Gain a good understanding of the problem we are trying to solve and how algorithms can be accelerated using specialized hardware
• Translate ideas into micro-architecture specifications
• Writing RTL with a design by construction mindset and using some of the best industry practices, integrating them into SoC and taking them through to implementation
• Support more junior engineers with your technical experience and insight.
• Support the Head of Silicon in improving best practices and in running design explorations.
• Work with the verification and validation team to ensure high quality of the design

• Proficiency in Verilog, System Verilog and constraint files.
• Proficiency in one or more standard bus protocols (AMBA, Wishbone)
• Experience with SVA and exposure to formal verification methods
• Understanding of low power techniques to reduce static and dynamic power
• Multi-design experience in flows such as RTL linting, CDC checks, DFT, STA etc
• Knowledge of C to assist firmware and SW suite bring up verification methodologies such as functional and code coverage
• Experience of using Python3 to build hardware models and to automate day to day tasks
• A good understanding of version control systems (Git) and use of continuous integration tools
• Good communication skills, attention to detail and passion to continuously improve our processes and flows

Understanding of error correction schemes