CPU SRAM Design Engineer - Sr Staff / Principal - Austin, Texas, United States of America, United States
$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
This role has been open 124 days — well above the 69-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
287
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Median days open
69 d
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Median salary
$205k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (287 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 287 |
| Median days open | 150 d | 69 d (+81 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 · 151 open roles · median 86 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 49 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 32 d
- Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 12 open roles · median 149 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 287 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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. Figures refresh nightly.