Principal Digital Design Engineer - Austin, United States
Originally posted 11 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves developing and verifying advanced digital designs for digital power management ICs. You will contribute to the design, verification, debug, simulation, and automation script development for chips.
What you'll do
- Develop, debug, and verify digital designs in pre and post silicon environment.
- Write tests to verify bulk design intent as per specification.
- Develop and improve scripts to facilitate design automation flows.
- Manage assigned design blocks in design requirements, architecture, and implementation.
- Research and present new tools in aid of design development process.
- Act as technical mentor for junior engineers and represent digital design as a functional digital design lead.
What you'll need
- BSc/MSc in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering (EE/ECE) and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Proficient in developing CDC / RDC / LINT clean designs in Verilog.
- Comfortable with debugging mixed-signal designs in System Verilog based test benches.
- Exposed to gate level simulation debug.
- Experience in designing industry standard serial interfaces (I2C, I3C, SPI, I2S).
- Working experience with Cadence or Synopsys design tool flows.
- Hands-on technical leadership role resulting in successful projects.
Nice to have
- Proficient in scripting languages such as Python/Perl.
- Knowledge of ARM cortex M-series processor and computer architecture.
- Exposure to mixed signal designs with basic understanding of analog circuits.
- Experience in digital backend design flow (synthesis / STA / P&R).
- Full design flow experience (specification, micro-architecture, RTL implementation, backend implementation).
- Experience with PMBus/SMBus, AVSBus, SVID, SVI3.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 61-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1017
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (1017 roles · 98 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 26 | 1017 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 85 | 3171 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 61 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 138 open roles · median 61 d
- Synopsys · 86 open roles · median 25 d
- AMD · 75 open roles · median 32 d
- Analog Devices · 50 open roles · median 42 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 48 open roles · median 79 d
- NVIDIA · 45 open roles · median 65 d
How we counted: 1017 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 98 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 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.