Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and verify custom digital hardware components and architectures that enable high-performance, tightly integrated computation workloads and interface Arago’s custom tensor unit for advanced AI/ML applications.
• Design, implement, and verify RTL blocks for memory, control, and compute subsystems within Arago’s custom multiphysics computation unit.
• Collaborate with Arago’s system software and architecture teams to define block-level specifications and ensure alignment with performance and integration goals.
• Develop and maintain functional verification infrastructure to validate design correctness across simulation and hardware testbenches.
• Support synthesis, timing analysis, and backend integration, working closely with Arago’s physical design and CAD engineers.
• Contribute to architectural exploration and hardware-software co-design efforts to shape future iterations of Arago’s compute platform.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in RTL design (Verilog/SystemVerilog) for control logic, datapaths, memory subsystems, and specialized processing units.
• Strong understanding of digital architecture, including pipelining, arbitration, memory hierarchy, and system-level integration.
• Proficiency in functional verification, including testbench development, assertions, coverage metrics, and debugging (UVM experience is a plus).
• Familiarity with ASIC and FPGA design flows, including synthesis, timing closure, and DFT.
• Comfortable working across the full hardware stack — from architectural specification and microarchitecture to physical implementation support.
• Language: English at a proficient level. French is a plus.

Do great things

we deliver work we’re proud to sign our name to.

High velocity

speed matters. We move quickly, one step at a time.

One unit

• we’re all in this together, with relationships grounded in trust, respect, and camaraderie.
• Arago is backed by executives from Apple, Arm, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Hugging Face, as well as prominent US and European deeptech venture firms and exited founders.

Pay and benefits

• Competitive cash compensation, with final package based on location, experience, and the pay of team members in similar positions.
• Meaningful stock option plan offered at the earliest stage of the company (included in the majority of full time offers).
• Relocation bonus and coverage of moving expenses for relocation within 20 minutes of the company’s location.
• Healthcare coverage (including family-friendly options), pension contributions, professional development support, and 25 days of PTO, in addition to public holidays.
• Ownership of a key technical domain, with significant vertical and/or horizontal growth opportunities, based on performance and individual drive.
• Reimbursement of 50% of the public transport subscription fee.
• A high-paced, multicultural (with 9 nationalities), and engineering-led environment.