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CPU SRAM Design Engineer - Sr Staff / Principal

Qualcomm Remote friendly (Austin, Texas, United States) Full-time 5 months ago
Digital Design & SoC Architecture Memory & Storage Technologies

$179,000 - $268,400 USD yearly

Originally posted 4 June 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves the design, improvement, and analysis of digital circuits for memories, with full ownership of custom SRAM and RF designs.

What you'll do

  • Develop custom digital circuits for high-speed and low-power SRAM designs
  • Perform schematic capture
  • Oversee layout planning and supervision
  • Conduct functional verification
  • Perform simulation and margin verification
  • Complete timing characterization

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 12 years of practical experience
  • Experience with designing SRAM circuits
  • Experience in industry standard custom design tools and flows
  • Experience with circuit simulation and Monte Carlo analysis
  • Experience with static timing analysis

Nice to have

  • MS degree in Electrical Engineering with 10 years of practical experience
  • Strong knowledge of SRAM and Register File techniques with advanced custom circuit implementations
  • Strong knowledge of high-performance and low-power design features and techniques
  • Strong knowledge of semiconductor device fundamentals
  • Familiarity with variation-aware simulation in FinFet and Nanosheet technology nodes
  • Experience with custom memory layout designs
  • Experience with all memory analysis steps including design entry, functional verification, layout guidance, simulation, timing, power and electrical characterization
  • Understanding of physical implementation impact on circuit performance
  • Proficiency with NanoTime, Ansys EMIR analysis, ESP-CV, Liberate power analysis tools
  • Experience with memory logical models (Verilog) and functional verification
  • Experience with BIST and other DFT features
  • Experience with memory analysis flow development and planning

Skills: custom SRAM, RF designs, schematic capture, circuit simulation, timing characterization

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Market context

This role has been open 156 days — well above the 72-day median for Memory Design roles.

Memory Design · Memory Design

Open roles in category
302
Median days open
72 d
Category median salary (all employers)
$205k
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How Qualcomm compares in Memory Design hiring
Metric Qualcomm All employers we track in this specialty (302 roles · 29 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 18 302
Median days open 106 d 72 d (+34 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $205k

Skills observed across this category: custom SRAM, RF designs, schematic capture, circuit simulation, timing characterization

Who's hiring in this category

  • Micron Technology · 154 open roles · median 82 d
  • Synopsys · 30 open roles · median 77 d
  • Qualcomm (this employer) · 18 open roles · median 106 d
  • Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 78 d
  • SanDisk · 15 open roles · median 7 d
  • NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 59 d

How we counted: 302 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.

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Austin, Texas, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
$179,000 - $268,400 USD yearly
5 months ago

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