Memory Design Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
$130,100 - $176,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves developing and validating memories for Arm CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs across advanced process technology nodes. You will work on transistor-level full-custom design and optimization for performance, power, and area down to 3nm and beyond.
What you'll do
- Execute transistor-level full-custom design and collaborate with the physical design team for layout realization. - Develop new features and optimize Arm memories to meet performance, power, and area targets in advanced process technologies (3nm and beyond). - Contribute across the memory development flow, including design specification, circuit design, design margining, physical verification, memory characterization, FE verification, release procedures, and QA flow. - Use AI tools to build scripts aimed at improving execution efficiency and quality. - Deliver high-performance, low-power memory designs for integration into CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs.
What you'll need
- Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field with an emphasis in VLSI design, or a Bachelor's degree with relevant work experience. - 2–5 years of circuit design experience, with SRAM preferred. - Project experience in physical IP design covering memories, standard cells, IOs, or PHYs. - Working knowledge of basic memory principles, particularly for SRAM, and technology trade-offs in deep sub-micron processes. - Experience with Cadence Virtuoso or equivalent schematic and layout editing tools, as well as SPICE and FastSPICE simulators.
Nice to have
- Experience designing on silicon technologies at or below 28nm. - Exposure to CMOS layout. - Experience running statistical simulations, including Monte-Carlo analysis. - Basic scripting knowledge in Perl, Tcl, Java, or UNIX environments. - Familiarity with AI tools.
Skills: SRAM, transistor-level design, Virtuoso, SPICE, memory characterization
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 71-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
314
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Median days open
71 d
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Median salary
$200k
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| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (314 roles · 30 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 314 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 71 d (−71 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $200k |
Skills observed across this category: SRAM, transistor-level design, Virtuoso, SPICE, memory characterization
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 164 open roles · median 83 d
- Synopsys · 30 open roles · median 68 d
- Qualcomm · 19 open roles · median 89 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 55 d
- Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 69 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 35 d
How we counted: 314 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 30 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 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.