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The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance.\nThe Role\nWe are seeking highly skilled and motivated Senior/Staff Digital Design Engineers with a strong focus on CMOS digital design to take end-to-end ownership of high-speed, real-time data-processing silicon, from early algorithm modelling to verified RTL and silicon bring-up. You will join a multidisciplinary group creating next-generation hardware where digital, optical and mixed-signal domains intersect. 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