CScale is building the interconnect for gigawatt-scale AI. As AI scale-up moves toward deployments spanning thousands of accelerators and dozens of racks, the network needs to deliver high bandwidth, predictable low latency, and continuous communication. CScale is building integrated optical interconnect designed for this recent scale, enabling accelerators to work together like a single, much larger computer. But at this scale, performance is only part of the challenge. Optical failures are inevitable, and the system needs to keep running. CScale is designing the interconnect for continuity. Lasers will fail. Compute shouldn’t. The ambition is simple: Build AI interconnect you can take for granted. CScale came out of stealth in September 2026 with $145 million in Series C funding, bringing total funding to $188 million.

Role And Responsibilities

• Be the primary point of contact for SoC program execution, and own the end-to-end plan from concept to release to manufacturing: architecture, IP, RTL, verification, physical design, DFT, tapeout, bring-up, validation,



qualification and sampling.
• Build the integrated plan across SoC and chiplet/multi-die design, hardware, firmware, software, foundry, packaging, test and QA.
• Set milestones, phase gates and the critical path (spec freeze, RTL freeze, netlist and timing signoff, tapeout readiness) with engineering leads, and own the gate reviews.
• Front-end: Drive RTL milestones and the RTL change-control process, track lint/CDC/RDC and DFT closure, and own verification closure (coverage, regression health, bug burn-down).
• Physical design: Drive floorplan, bump map, timing and power convergence, IR/EM and signoff, and coordinate netlist, constraint, IP-view and package handoffs across FE, PD, analog and packaging.
• Emulation: Own the emulation and FPGA prototyping plan, and make sure results feed back into RTL and firmware before tapeout.
• SW interfacing: Keep hardware and software aligned on register map, memory map

📌 SoC Program Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 CScale
📍 Bengaluru