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Business Development Manager — Energy & Utilities
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Build the silicon layer of sovereign compute
A billion people depend on infrastructure that runs on silicon designed elsewhere, for other operating conditions. Nelix designs secure microcontrollers, edge AI processors, and hardware roots of trust for that gap — chips engineered for intermittent power, high ambient heat, and persistent physical attack. We hire engineers who want their work to hold up in the field, not just in simulation.
Remote-first
Engineering Across Time Zones
Accra
Headquarters · Ghana
FPGA → Tape-out
Verified Silicon Roadmap
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Disciplines We Hire
01 — Disciplines
The work spans the whole stack
From instruction-set decisions to metrology front-ends, every layer of a Nelix chip is designed in-house. These are the disciplines we hire for, whether or not a matching opening is listed below.
Chip Architects
Define instruction sets, memory hierarchies, and power budgets for SoCs that must run on unstable grid power. You own architecture decisions from specification through silicon correlation.
RTL Engineers
Write and refine the synthesizable SystemVerilog behind SecureGrid and InferEdge — lockstep cores, crypto engines, and low-power interconnect built to a security-first coding standard.
Verification Engineers
Build UVM environments, formal proofs, and coverage closure for security-critical blocks, where a missed corner case becomes a field vulnerability instead of an errata note.
FPGA Engineers
Bring architectures to life on FPGA prototypes — the proving ground for every Nelix design before tape-out — and run them against real metering and inference workloads.
Embedded Systems Engineers
Write the firmware closest to the silicon: bare-metal bring-up, secure boot flows, drivers, and the signed OTA update pipeline that keeps fleets trustworthy for a decade.
AI Hardware Engineers
Design and tune the systolic arrays, compute-in-memory paths, and quantized inference pipelines that let InferEdge run offline-first workloads inside a sub-15 W envelope.
Security Engineers
Attack our own designs before adversaries do: side-channel analysis, fault injection, tamper response, and the PUF and post-quantum machinery inside TrustCore.
Analog/Mixed-Signal Engineers
Design the metrology front-ends, power management, and sensor interfaces that keep measurements accurate through heat, electrical noise, and brownout conditions.
02 — Open Positions
Current openings
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Applications Engineer
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Hardware Security Engineer
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SDK / Developer Tools Engineer
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Embedded Firmware Engineer
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FPGA Prototyping Engineer
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Physical Design / Backend Engineer
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Analog / Mixed-Signal Design Engineer
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Senior RTL Design Engineer
Lead the design and implementation of digital circuits for our next-generation microprocessors. Drive Africa's semiconductor revolution....
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Hardware Verification Intern
Ensure our chip designs are bug-free through systematic verification. Great entry point into the semiconductor industry....
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Embedded Software Intern
Write the firmware that brings our African-designed chips to life. Perfect for software engineers who love low-level programming....
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Embedded Systems Engineer
Develop firmware and low-level software for our custom silicon, bringing African-designed chips to life....
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Digital Verification Engineer
Ensure the quality and correctness of our chip designs through rigorous verification methodologies....
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FPGA Development Intern
Prototype our chip designs on FPGA platforms and help validate our architectures in real hardware....
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RTL Design Intern
Learn digital design from experienced engineers while contributing to Africa's first indigenous microprocessor....
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03 — Why Nelix
Why engineers join us
First-silicon ownership
We are a small team on the road from FPGA validation to first tape-out. The blocks you architect, verify, and bring up are yours end to end — milestones you own, not a line in someone else's design history.
Security-first culture
Threat models are part of design review, not an afterthought. Building for adversarial, physically exposed environments imposes a discipline that shapes how we write RTL, firmware, and documentation.
A mission with a horizon
Trusted infrastructure silicon for the Global South is a decades-long project, and this is its ground floor. The work is hard, the constraints are real, and the outcome matters beyond a product cycle.
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