Sr. Asic Design Engineer (video Silicon Ip) - Multimedia Lab

ByteDance ByteDance · Big Tech · San Jose, CA · R&D

Seeking an ASIC Design Engineer for the Video Silicon IP team to build industry-leading, highly efficient, and scalable video codec hardware solutions. Responsibilities include designing hardware accelerators for video encoding and processing, developing micro-architectures, implementing RTL, and collaborating with verification teams. Requires 5 years of ASIC front-end design experience, proficiency in SystemVerilog RTL design or HLS, and understanding of VLSI design concepts.

What you'd actually do

  1. As an ASIC Design Engineer in this Video Silicon IP team, we work closely with architecture, algorithm and verification teams to build high performance and low power video processing IPs.
  2. Apply your knowledge of computer architecture and ASIC design to create ASIC design for compressing, still images and videos.
  3. Develop micro-architectures to meet stringent area, power, and performance (PPA) targets for multi-standard codec cores.
  4. Collaborate with algorithm teams to translate codec standard specifications and proprietary codec improvements into implementable hardware architectures.
  5. Design and implement RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog) for video codec pipeline stages including intra/inter prediction, transform & quantization, entropy coding (CABAC/ANS), in-loop filters, and etc.

Skills

Required

  • M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
  • 5 years of ASIC front-end design experience as a primary RTL owner
  • Proficiency in SystemVerilog RTL design or High level Synthesis (HLS)
  • Familiarity with UVM/DPI/C++
  • Solid understanding of VLSI design concepts: pipelining, clock gating, memory architecture, bus interfaces (AXI/APB), and SV assertion basics
  • Scripting proficiency in Python for EDA flow automation

Nice to have

  • Experience with Video Codec (H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC, AV1, VP9, or H.264/AVC)
  • Experience with relevant ISP or machine learning based image/video compression
  • Experience with FPGA prototyping for pre-silicon codec validation
  • Practical experience using LLMs (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to assist RTL design workflows