Custom Memory Design Engineer
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Custom Memory Design Engineer, you will build custom memories to power an unconventional computing architecture. You will design custom SRAM and DRAM circuits across clean-sheet design, closure, tapeout, and silicon bring-up.
What you'll do
- Lead the full custom RAM development cycle from architecture, methodology, and tooling to design and closure.
- Design unique RAM circuits in SRAM and DRAM technologies, collaborating with silicon architecture, digital design, memory architects, and analog design engineers.
- Develop or acquire RAM IP for use in Normal Silicon, including RAM PDKs.
- Acquire or direct RAM design EDA tool development.
- Support silicon bring-up, characterization, and tapeout.
What you'll need
- Experience developing RAM IP from spec to GDSII in modern technologies, including tapeout and silicon bring-up.
- Deep technical experience with memory technologies (SRAM, DRAM) at the core level, including bitcell arrays and peripheral circuits.
- Experience designing and characterizing custom bitcells in schematic and layout.
- Fluency in the Cadence flow, including Virtuoso, Spectre, Assembler, Extraction, Layout, HSMC, and Characterization.
- Deep understanding of noise and variation and their impacts on silicon performance and reliability.
Nice to have
- Experience leading, taping out, and bringing up CIM chips.
- Experience in a chip measurement environment for debug and characterization.
- Experience using AI and/or scripting languages such as Python or Perl to automate design flows and data post-processing.
Skills: custom DRAM circuits, analog circuits, bitcell arrays, Cadence flow, silicon bring-up
This role has been open 20 days — well below the 72-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
302
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Median days open
72 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$205k
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| Metric | Normal Computing | All employers we track in this specialty (302 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 302 |
| Median days open | 17 d | 72 d (−55 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: custom DRAM circuits, analog circuits, bitcell arrays, Cadence flow, silicon bring-up
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 154 open roles · median 82 d
- Synopsys · 30 open roles · median 77 d
- Qualcomm · 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.