Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional Senior Principal Engineer, Memory Architect to join our Bufferchip team in San Jose, California or San Francisco, California. Candidates will be joining some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world to develop products that make data faster and safer. 

As a Senior Principal Engineer, Memory Architect, the candidate will be reporting to the System Architecture Director and is a Full Time position. This is a challenging position that is balanced between technology development, project planning, and customer interaction. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the full life cycle of a project: from product definition to tapeout of customer design. You will work with a small but highly experienced team where your ideas and efforts will make a difference.

Responsibilities

• Work with marketing and system architects to define leading-edge serial memory buffer products
• Write detailed chip architecture specifications
• Identify and select IP blocks, working with both internal design teams and external vendors
• Work with silicon design, verification, and validation teams to guide successful product implementation

Qualifications

• Silicon device architecture expertise in the following areas:
  • PCIe 5.0 transaction, data link, and physical layers - PCIe 5.0 software stack / driver experience is a plus
  • CXL 2.0 io, cache, and memory protocols
  • High-performance on-chip interconnect - switch architecture knowledge is a plus
  • DDR5 memory controller and PHY
  • Embedded management processors
• Experience selecting and integrating silicon IP for the architectural areas listed above
• Experience writing detailed architecture specifications for complex silicon devices

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About Rambus

With 30 years of innovation and semiconductor expertise, Rambus leads the industry with products and solutions speed performance, expand capacity and improve security for today's most demanding applications. From data center and edge to artificial intelligence and automotive, our interface and security IP, and memory interface chips enable SoC and system designers to deliver their vision of the future.

Rambus offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, equity, matching 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, comprehensive medical and dental benefits, time-off program and gym membership.

Rambus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Rambus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may let us know in the application.

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