Layout/Mask Design Engineer - Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
Originally posted 28 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves designing and implementing physical layouts for advanced digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuits used in the development of memory products.
What you'll do
- Design and implement physical layouts for advanced digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuits.
- Translate schematics into high quality, manufacturable layouts that meet process rules, performance targets, and schedule commitments.
- Perform block-level floor planning, including layout area estimation and optimization.
- Execute routing, power bus design, and creation of robust PDN solutions.
- Ensure layouts comply with foundry process design rules and verify layout-versus-schematic (LVS) and design rule checks (DRC).
- Create and maintain layout-related documentation and actively participate in layout and design reviews.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Material Engineering, or related field.
- Device physics.
- Material characteristics affecting chip design performance.
- Electron microscopy (SEM).
- Thermodynamics impacting leakage.
Skills: physical layouts, memory products, DRC/LVS, floor planning, Virtuoso
This role has been open 6 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 | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (287 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 153 | 287 |
| Median days open | 86 d | 69 d (+17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: physical layouts, memory products, DRC/LVS, floor planning, Virtuoso
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology (this employer) · 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.