Bluespec Design Engineer (Haskell) - Mountain View (HQ) or Remote, United States
$250,000 - $600,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves delivering performant silicon RTL at the full-chip or subsystem level.
What you'll do
- Build production hardware for compute, memory management, and high-speed connectivity
- Develop reusable, parameterized Bluespec libraries
- Shape hardware architecture leveraging Bluespec to explore implementation tradeoffs
- Create innovative tooling for the hardware/software ecosystem
What you'll need
- Proficient in Haskell, including monads, typeclasses, higher-order functions, and do-notation
- Strong willingness to quickly ramp on Bluespec Haskell (BH)
- Strong engineering fundamentals, including build systems, version control, and CI workflows
Nice to have
- Existing experience with Bluespec
- Prior hardware design experience (ASIC or FPGA), including clock domains, pipelining, state machines, synthesis, and timing closure
- Production Rust experience
Skills: Bluespec, Haskell, hardware architecture, compute, memory management
This role has been open 21 days — well below the 61-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1024
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | MatX | All employers we track in this specialty (1024 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 1024 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 29 | 3205 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 57 d | 61 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: Bluespec, Haskell, hardware architecture, compute, memory management
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 140 open roles · median 63 d
- Synopsys · 86 open roles · median 31 d
- AMD · 71 open roles · median 37 d
- Analog Devices · 47 open roles · median 49 d
- NVIDIA · 44 open roles · median 59 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 42 open roles · median 85 d
How we counted: 1024 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.