Senior Scientist for Digital Design with focus on RISC-V (all genders) // Job-ID: 119-1

Are you passionate about shaping the future of embedded computing architectures? Do you have the expertise and ambition to drive innovation in digital IC design? Join us as a Senior Scientist for Digital Design with a Focus on RISC-V and lead the way in developing cutting-edge, sustainable, and intelligent computing solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop future sustainable, dependable, and intelligent embedded computing architectures.
• Drive research in VLSI/digital design with a focus on RISC-V and related processor architectures and accelerators.
• Contribute to the development of accurate design specifications for digital control blocks.
• Deliver complex digital IP to meet schedule, area, power, and performance targets.
• Work with digital verification teams to create verification plans.
• Collaborate with laboratory teams to create and verify FPGA-based prototypes.
• Collaborate with industry and academia partners.
• Lead research projects and participate in the acquisition of industry projects and funding grants.
• Publish your work in leading journals and present at conferences.

• PhD in digital IC design with at least 3 years of relevant experience, or
• MSc in a relevant field with at least 5 years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrate strong proficiency in HDLs (SystemVerilog, VHDL).
• Excel in architecture exploration and micro-architecture development.
• Possess in-depth knowledge of on-chip infrastructure (AMBA/PCIe/USB/JTAG, NoC).
• Have a solid background in silicon development and digital IP design/integration.
• Utilize experience with back-end tools (synthesis and Place & Route).
• Exhibit proficiency in Static Timing Analysis tools and Clock Domain Crossing.
• Show expertise in functional and formal verification.
• Apply skills in scripting languages (Tcl, Python, Perl, MATLAB, Shell-scripting).
• Leverage experience with EDA tools (simulator/debug/synthesis/timing analysis/place & route) from major vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor).
• Experience with FPGA tools (e.g., Xilinx)
• Communicate effectively in verbal and written English; knowledge of German is an advantage.
• Software development skills (bare metal, RISC-V/ARM) are beneficial.

• Proven project management experience.
• Autonomous, well-organized, and thrive in a dynamic and multicultural team environment.
• Experience in team leadership or PhD supervision is highly desirable.
• Effective in strategy development is an advantage.
• Strong track record in business development and winning projects.

• Diverse research activities with many technical challenges.
• State-of-the-art laboratory facilities and equipment.
• Location in the heart of Europe in Austria – relocation support for non-European nationalities.
• Internal and external training opportunities for career development.
• Home office in Austria (max. 40%) and work from anywhere in the European Union possible (< 25%).
• Family & children friendly - actively shaping the compatibility of family and career.
• “Vital4SAL” to promote a healthy workplace (e.g. SAL coaching pool, trainings on mental health, physical activities, healthy snacks, 24/7 accident insurance)
• € 4 per day meal allowance in restaurants or € 2 per working day in supermarkets.
• Public transport initiative (subsidy for the “Klimaticket”)
• Start: as soon as possible