# Lead RTL Design Engineer

Efficient Computer is rethinking computing from the ground up to solve one of AI's biggest challenges: energy. Our Fabric architecture delivers a 10-100x improvement in energy efficiency for general-purpose computation, including AI, while supporting familiar programming languages and software frameworks-unlocking new possibilities for autonomous machines, intelligent infrastructure, wearables, and space systems. With our first processor, Electron E1, now shipping in volume and more than $97 million in Series B financing recently announced, we're accelerating customer deployments and scaling our architecture to data center performance. Join us to build the hardware and software that bring intelligence wherever it's needed and help shape the next generation of computing. We are looking for a Lead RTL Design Engineer to own microarchitecture definition and RTL implementation across the dataflow execution fabric, memory subsystem, on-chip interconnect/NoC, low-power logic, and standard peripheral IP (RiscV, NVM, I2S, I2C) integration. You will work from architecture spec through synthesis-ready RTL, collaborating with architects, microarchitects, DV leads, physical design, and firmwar

- **Id**: 1309346
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/efficient-computer-lead-rtl-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, San Francisco, United States, Pittsburgh, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-30T17:19:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:29:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 194
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6795
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 2217001
- **Name**: Efficient Computer
- **Domain**: efficient.computer
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/efficient-computer>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 62
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 275000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275000

## Technologies

- **Formal Verification** — Optional: no
- **LiteRT** — Optional: no
- **ONNX** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **TFLite** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 194

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T15:21:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.448
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 194
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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