# RTL Design Lead/IC Front-End Architect/Datapath Lead at Lumilens

- Company: Lumilens
- What the company does: Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: https://lumilens.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumilens/d3cc81fa-6c18-46d7-8cdf-76c2151c6ae5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lumilens-rtl-design-lead-ic-front-end-architect-datapath-lead/

## About the role

You own verification end to end for a first-of-its-kind chiplet. As a founding hire you define the methodology before there's RTL to verify — this role is on the critical path, and getting the coverage strategy and regression infrastructure right early is the single biggest schedule lever we have.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years digital design / micro-architecture, with lead ownership of a high-throughput datapath or SerDes-adjacent SoC
- Experience designing the datapath of a network switch/NIC card or memory controller at a major XPU / fabric vendor (or a comparable high-throughput, high-reliability datapath)
- Solid understanding of scale-up vs. scale-out interconnect architectures and their bandwidth/latency trade-offs
- Strong SystemVerilog RTL and timing-aware micro-architecture at multi-hundred-Gbps aggregate rates, CDC discipline
- Working command of UCIe/PCIe/CXL datapath concepts and high-speed lane alignment/deskew
- Proven ownership of front-end design methodology — lint/CDC/RDC signoff, clocking/reset architecture, and design-for-test and physical-closure collaboration

Tags: Engineering