Logic Design, Technical Intern

The Internship Role

We are looking for Logic Designers to help us grow our team. This is a unique opportunity to put your passion for cutting edge microarchitecture, logic and RTL design to work in a custom, high-frequency design manufactured on the leading-edge process nodes!

Your responsibilities will include

• Building relationships with modelling, verification and implementation teams to see your designs optimized, tested and taken to physical implementation.
• Defining microarchitectural features and RTL development of hardware designs, optimized for power, performance, area and timing goals
• Creating and reviewing design and verification documentation and plans
• Participating in high level architectural exploration

Working for the logic development group, you will work collaboratively with, and learn from, industry veteran designers and architects to create a breakthrough design for cloud computing. Our engineers are excited about technology and innovation and channel that energy to deliver world-class products with high performance and low power.

Internship is full-time for Summer(May/June – Sept/Oct.) in Santa Clara, CA or Portland, OR

What the Team Wants You to Know

We are a small motivated team passionately working in the development of high end cloud computing chips. We are seeking sharp, self-motivated and passionate logic design engineer to join our team to share the journey with us. In this role, you will be exposed to some of the most complex hardware technologies and challenges in the world. So come join us if you are passionate about digital logic design and want to explore and solve some of the challenges in the world of high end VLSI design.

The Ampere Internship program focuses on you to build your networks, support your efforts in making an impact, and giving you exposure to what Ampere does and how Ampere operates across the company. We want you to leave with the feeling that what you've worked on made a difference, a new level of confidence of what you're capable of, technical expertise, and a new network of contacts.

What You’ll Bring

• Exposure to working on Linux environment
• Very strong digital design fundamentals
• Strong computer architecture background
• Strong understanding of Synthesis, Place and Route, Static Timing Analysis and associated challenges are also highly desirable.
• Ability to work with a team and independently
• Exposure to scripting languages like Perl, Python
• Strong Verilog or System Verilog coding skills

Education

• Internship is full-time for Summer(May/June – Sept/Oct.) in Santa Clara, CA or Portland, OR
• Candidate pursuing a Master’s Degree is preferred. Bachelor's degree and PhD students are also considered.

Perks in Santa Clara

• Standing /Ergo friendly desk set-up
• Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays
• Office has panoramic views of Silicon Valley
• Healthy snacks, espresso and drinks
• Ping-pong/game room
• Garage parking
• Gym and café on campus

Perks in Portland

• Gym
• Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays
• Roof top terrace with Willamette River views
• Walking distance of breweries, landscaped parks, art galleries, restaurants and shops
• On-site bike parking and repair station
• Garage parking
• Game room
• Healthy snacks, espresso and drinks
• Standing /Ergo friendly desk set-up
• On-site café, bar, and market

Ampere offers a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $90,000 and $150,000, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $98,000 and $164,000. This role will be paid on an hourly basis. Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week. Beyond compensation and benefits, our passionate teams thrive in an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more - all in service of inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We look forward to sharing more about our career opportunities through interviews but reach out to [email protected] if you have questions that can’t wait.

Our Company

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.

Our Story

Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come.

Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm®-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications. Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power and performance, delivering results that matter most.