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Arago is an AI and computer hardware company founded in 2024 by AI researchers and physicists, focused on accelerating breakthroughs at the intersection of AI and semiconductors. The company brings together engineers and scientists from top companies and research labs, operating from hubs in France, North America, and Israel with backing from executives at Apple, Arm, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Hugging Face.
As a Senior Hardware Design Engineer, you will design and verify custom digital hardware components and architectures that enable high-performance, tightly integrated computation workloads for Arago's custom tensor unit for advanced AI/ML applications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and verify RTL blocks for memory, control, and compute subsystems within Arago's custom multiphysics computation unit
- Collaborate with system software and architecture teams to define block-level specifications and ensure alignment with performance and integration goals
- Develop and maintain functional verification infrastructure to validate design correctness across simulation and hardware testbenches
- Support synthesis, timing analysis, and backend integration, working closely with physical design and CAD engineers
- Contribute to architectural exploration and hardware-software co-design efforts to shape future iterations of Arago's compute platform
Required qualifications:
- Extensive experience in RTL design (Verilog/SystemVerilog) for control logic, datapaths, memory subsystems, and specialized processing units
- Strong understanding of digital architecture, including pipelining, arbitration, memory hierarchy, and system-level integration
- Proficiency in functional verification, including testbench development, assertions, coverage metrics, and debugging (UVM experience preferred)
- Familiarity with ASIC and FPGA design flows, including synthesis, timing closure, and DFT
- Comfortable working across the full hardware stack from architectural specification to physical implementation support
- Proficient English; French is a plus
Compensation includes competitive cash, meaningful stock options at an early stage, relocation bonus and moving expense coverage, healthcare coverage, pension contributions, professional development support, and 25 days PTO plus public holidays.
