Digital Circuit Design Engineer - Austin
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
Focus on SRAM design for high-performance memory circuits.
About the role
This role involves designing and implementing custom digital circuits for SRAM design.
What you'll do
- Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM.
- Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area, and yield.
- Perform schematic capturing, simulations/analysis, and margin verifications.
- Work with the layout team to create optimal GDS and verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.
- Be responsible for backend verification of layout, including IR/Electromechanical analysis.
- Write RTL, validating use-cases, and verifying against design schematics.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
- Experience utilizing CAD tools including Cadence Virtuoso, Spice, Layout tools, Skill language, Model Sim, Digital P&R, compilers, or simulators.
- Experience debugging simulation failures and chip simulations on CAD software for logical and timing verification.
- Knowledge of device physics and transistor for circuit optimization.
- SRAM design skills to build and evaluate memory circuits.
- Experience analyzing circuits and SPICE simulation to ensure robust operation.
- Experience utilizing waveform viewers including SpiceExplorer or WaveView to verify circuit logic and timing.
- Experience with Static Timing Analysis of an SRAM design, using NanoTime, PrimeTime or similar.
Skills: SRAM design, Cadence Virtuoso, Spice simulation, Layout tools, Static Timing Analysis, device physics
This role has been open 3 days — well below 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 | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (287 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 287 |
| Median days open | 126 d | 69 d (+57 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: SRAM design, Cadence Virtuoso, Spice simulation, Layout tools, Static Timing Analysis, device physics
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 · 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.