Elijah Kim
Senior Silicon Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElijah Kim is a Senior Silicon Engineer with 11 years of hands-on ASIC and SoC design experience, currently working on datacenter TPU AI chips at Google. He brings end-to-end expertise from architecture and RTL to static timing, synthesis, ECO, FPGA and Cadence Palladium validation, with deep domain knowledge in host interfaces for flash storage (AHCI, NVMe) and PCIe. A founding design engineer on the OpenTitan project, he has authored secure-hardened IP, established automated open-source hardware flows, and contributed hardware and firmware fixes to a widely used open-root-of-trust. His career includes multiple tapeouts for PCIe/NVMe and SATA/SAS SSD controllers deployed by major vendors and several awarded patents in secure storage and PCIe SSD design. Outside work he balances late-night sky watching and adventure motorcycling, a hint at his methodical curiosity and taste for complex, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, BS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Hanyang UniversityMS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lowRISC/opentitan
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Hardware Engineer
Back-end Developer & Hardware EngineerContributions:990 reviews, 226 commits, 1100 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Elijah primarily focused on hardware and firmware development within the OpenTitan project. Their contributions included removing redundant interrupts from the SPI device driver, refactoring the TL-UL to Register interface, adding error handling to various components, and adding assertions for better code quality. The user also implemented and refactored features in the low power modules. They are also involved in refactoring existing features as well as contributing to the project's overall code quality.
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eunchan/opentitan
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 PRs, 2575 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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