GPU Design Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States of America, United States
$195,200 - $292,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 May 2026 by the employer.
Lead RTL design and verification teams delivering GPU development at Qualcomm.
About the role
This role leads an RTL Design and Design Verification organization focused on Qualcomm GPU development, combining technical leadership with people management. The position guides engineering execution from architecture reviews and micro-architecture definition through RTL freeze and verification sign-off.
What you'll do
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across RTL design and design verification, including micro-architecture definition, RTL quality, and verification completeness. - Build, lead, and scale an organization of RTL and Design Verification engineers and senior technical leads. - Influence architecture tradeoffs related to performance, power, area (PPA), scalability, and product robustness. - Drive adoption of verification methodologies, including constrained-random, coverage-driven verification, assertions, formal techniques, and automation. - Partner with cross-functional leaders in architecture, physical design, software, SoC, and program management to align technical milestones and program schedules. - Participate in design reviews, verification strategy reviews, complex issue debug, and tape-out readiness assessments.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of hardware/software/systems engineering experience (or Master's with 5+ years, or PhD with 4+ years). - Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams in RTL design and design verification. - Hands-on expertise in RTL design using SystemVerilog or Verilog. - Experience delivering complex GPU, CPU, or ASIC designs from micro-architecture through silicon. - Knowledge of verification planning, coverage metrics, debug, assertions, and sign-off discipline.
Skills: GPU development, RTL Design and Design Verification, architectural excellence, micro-architecture definition, RTL quality
This role has been open 173 days — well above the 64-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1083
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (1083 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 160 | 1083 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 424 | 3328 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 64 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: GPU development, RTL Design and Design Verification, architectural excellence, micro-architecture definition, RTL quality
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 160 open roles · median 61 d
- Synopsys · 87 open roles · median 37 d
- AMD · 77 open roles · median 43 d
- Analog Devices · 49 open roles · median 54 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 42 open roles · median 93 d
- NVIDIA · 40 open roles · median 64 d
How we counted: 1083 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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.