Memory System Designer and Place and Route Engineer - USA-TX-Austin - River Place B7, United States
$109,700 - $175,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves designing large memory blocks and memory subsystems. You will be part of a memory subsystem design team responsible for development.
What you'll do
- Architect and design memory subsystems
- Implement RTL of subsystem designs
- Perform Place and Route (physical design)
- Achieve design closure: timing, DRC, LVS, EM/IR
- Synthesize gate netlists
What you'll need
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
- Ability to write and debug Verilog RTL code
- Place and route expertise
- Proficient in running STA, DRC, EM/IR tools, and attaining design closure
- Ability to code in Python
- Understanding of synthesis tools and running synthesis
- Capable of running and debugging logical equivalency checkers
- Familiarity with memory behavior
- Proficient in writing automation scripts
Skills: memory subsystems, RTL of subsystem designs, Place and route, timing, DRC, LVS, EM/IR, Verilog RTL code
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 65-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
303
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$205k
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| Metric | Broadcom | All employers we track in this specialty (303 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 17 | 303 |
| Median days open | 50 d | 65 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: memory subsystems, RTL of subsystem designs, Place and route, timing, DRC, LVS, EM/IR, Verilog RTL code
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 153 open roles · median 86 d
- Synopsys · 33 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 18 open roles · median 92 d
- Broadcom (this employer) · 17 open roles · median 50 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 36 d
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 303 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.