Senior/Staff Front-End Design Engineer (RTL Design - RISC-V)

About the role

Bitdeer, a technology company for Bitcoin mining and AI cloud headquartered in Singapore, is hiring a Senior/Staff Front-End Design Engineer focused on RTL design of RISC-V processors. The role covers integrating a commercial RISC-V core soft IP with external accelerators, tailoring the CPU soft IP to strict performance, power and area (PPA) requirements, and driving front-end ASIC implementation.

Key responsibilities

• Integrate a commercial RISC-V core soft IP with external accelerators using RISC-V custom extension instruction interfaces.
• Tailor the CPU soft IP by configuring the microarchitecture to remove unnecessary features and meet PPA targets.
• Perform targeted Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL modifications, mainly on the processor front-end and control path.
• Work with performance, middle-end and back-end (physical design) engineers to integrate the IP and meet physical design constraints.
• Drive front-end ASIC steps including synthesis, static timing analysis (STA) closure, power reduction and floorplanning.
• Contribute to design verification and help debug complex logic issues before and after silicon.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science; Master's preferred.
• Familiarity with the RISC-V ISA, custom extensions, privilege modes and CSRs.
• Strong understanding of CPU architecture and logic design, with hands-on CPU core integration and IP feature tailoring.
• Proven collaboration with performance modeling, synthesis/DFT and back-end (P&R) teams.

Required skills

• Extensive Verilog RTL development with industry-standard tools.
• Preferred: synthesis flows, linting, CDC/RDC analysis, STA, SoC power-saving techniques, clocking architectures, reset/power-up sequences, DFT/DFX/MBIST.
• Preferred: scripting automation with Python, Perl, Shell or TCL.

What we offer

• An inclusive, open-workspace environment with a fast-growing start-up spirit.
• Direct impact on the digital asset industry and involvement in new projects and process development.
• Training and mentoring, and welfare benefits.