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Our cutting-edge solutions, powered by the Hermes64 RF SoC, are designed to enhance network energy efficiency while dramatically reducing operational expenses, with purpose-built silicon that is the heart of ORAN-based active antenna arrays.\nHeadquartered in San Diego, California, GreenWave Radios™ has established itself as a pioneer in delivering power-efficient digital-to-RF solutions. The company is supported by a talented team of over 100 engineers spread across four global R&D facilities. With an extensive portfolio of more than 120 global patents, GreenWave Radios™ continues to push the boundaries of radio technology and innovation.\nTo learn more about GreenWave Radios™ and hear what our employees have to say, visit the GreenWave™ certification profile at GreatPlacetoWork.com or explore our Home - GreenWave Radios website.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for an experienced Principal Engineer/Manager to lead a small, high-impact team building next-generation cellular infrastructure radio Front Haul Gateway (FHGW) solutions in both FPGA and ASIC. You’ll own everything from architecture through production-defining features, authoring device specifications, and driving the design flow for high-performance programmable logic with embedded Linux-based wireless communications software. This is a senior technical leadership and management role with direct influence on our market-leading cellular infrastructure products, working hands-on alongside experts across design, verification, firmware, and system engineering.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead and mentor a small team of FPGA/ASIC design engineers, including resource planning, project scheduling, and technical mentoring/oversight\nOwn solution architecture end-to-end-taking marketing requirements and translating to product specifications through production-quality programmable logic design, verification and hardware validation\nDrive architecture / micro-architecture definition, CPU/bus/memory subsystem design, IP integration, and physical implementation for complex SoC designs\nCollaborate with system engineering on Radio product specifications, ensuring alignment across the company\nPartner with IP, design verification, firmware, software, and production teams to close design issues and meet program milestones\nRefine development methodologies and enforce design quality standards across the team, including simulation, linting, clock-domain crossing checks, and formal verification\nCollaborate with embedded Linux-based wireless communications software team that complements the FPGA/ASIC logic layer\nWhat You Bring\n20+ years of experience in FPGA and SoC development and mass production, including a proven track record in a technical leadership and management role\nMS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent\nDeep expertise in Verilog and SystemVerilog, and front-end tooling (simulation, linting, CDC, formal verification)\nHands-on experience with packet processing designs including buffering, routing, transposing, combining, framing/de-framing packet based formats (e.g. Ethernet, O-RAN/eCPRI, etc)\nHands-on experience with AMBA AXI/AHB/APB bus protocol specification and implementation\nProven ability to define constraints, run synthesis and static timing analysis, and own a complete front-to-back AMD (Xilinx Vivado) FPGA implementation flow\nWorking knowledge of DFT/DFM, SCAN ATPG, BIST, and fault coverage analysis\nProficiency in SystemVerilog and other advanced design verification methodologies\nComfort with scripting and programming languages including C/C++, Perl, Tcl, and Python\nStrong communication and presentation skills; ability to drive results under aggressive schedules across cross-functional teams\nNice to Have\nExperience developing cellular infrastructure radio products, particularly 10/25Gbps Ethernet eCPRI connectivity to the DU and interface to RF ASICs.\nFamiliarity with O-RAN FS7.2x specifications or eCPRI/CPRI front haul protocols\nUnderstanding of Array based radios including AAU and mMIMO\nExposure to AI-assisted EDA tools for synthesis, timing analysis, or verification (e.g., AI-driven placement/routing assistants, ML-based timing closure prediction, AI-guided power analysis)\nExperience using Claude Code or similar AI coding assistants to accelerate design scripting, documentation, or code review - familiarity with agentic AI tools for engineering workflows is a genuine differentiator\nFamiliarity with LLM-assisted RTL or HDL generation tools (e.g., Copilot for hardware, or general-purpose LLMs prompted for Verilog/SystemVerilog generation and review)\nComfort using AI tools for verification productivity - assertion generation, coverage analysis, or ML-based bug prediction to speed up simulation closure\nExperience applying AI to technical documentation workflows - LLM-assisted datasheet parsing, specification drafting, or design review summarization\nGeneral comfort adopting AI-augmented workflows to boost design productivity\nCompensation and Benefits\nAt InnoPhase, dba GreenWave Radios, our total rewards package includes both a competitive base salary and pre-IPO stock options. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $190,000 to $225,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including market conditions, interview performance, skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. 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