Principal Digital Engineer - Austin, United States
Originally posted 30 July 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on digital power controllers and related power management products.
About the role
This role defines scalable verification and validation methodologies for advanced digital power management products, focusing on the system-level verification layer that connects analog behavior, digital implementation, and firmware interaction.
What you'll do
- Define mixed-signal verification strategy for digital power controllers and power management products.
- Develop system-level verification plans covering sensing paths, ADC/DAC behavior, PWM paths, telemetry, compensation, and control-loop behavior.
- Establish correlation methodologies across behavioral models, RTL, analog/mixed-signal simulations, emulation, bench validation, and silicon measurements.
- Define measurable pass/fail criteria, coverage expectations, reference scenarios, and evidence requirements for architecture and product decisions.
- Support automation of verification results, including consistent metrics, plots, waveforms, summaries, and structured outputs.
- Document verification methodology, interface assumptions, test intent, correlation expectations, and residual risks.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in mixed-signal verification, semiconductor validation, systems engineering, analog/mixed-signal design, or design verification.
- Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal building blocks such as ADCs, DACs, amplifiers, references, sensing paths, timing circuits, PWM paths, or power stages.
- Experience defining verification plans, validation methodologies, measurable results, and technical evidence for complex electronic systems.
- Ability to work across analog, digital, firmware, validation, applications, and software/tool teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with digital multiphase controllers, DC/DC converters, voltage regulators, power management ICs, or high-current datacenter power applications.
- Experience with model-to-silicon correlation, behavioral modeling, real-number modeling, Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog RNM, MATLAB, Python, SIMPLIS, or equivalent environments.
- Experience with verification automation, data analysis, test infrastructure, dashboards, databases, or API-driven workflows.
- Familiarity with control loops, stability, latency, quantization, noise, telemetry, and power-system measurement techniques.
- Experience creating reusable verification frameworks.
Skills: mixed-signal verification, digital power controllers, power management products, control-loop behavior, model-to-silicon correlation
This role has been open 61 days — well below the 92-day median for Mixed-Signal Design roles.
Mixed-Signal Design · Mixed Signal
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Open roles in category
153
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Median days open
92 d
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Median salary
$178k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (153 roles · 42 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 153 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 83 | 1385 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 74 d | 92 d (−18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $178k |
Skills observed across this category: mixed-signal verification, digital power controllers, power management products, control-loop behavior, model-to-silicon correlation
Who's hiring in this category
- Analog Devices · 24 open roles · median 77 d
- Infineon Technologies · 14 open roles · median 80 d
- NVIDIA · 11 open roles · median 53 d
- SiTime · 11 open roles · median 189 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 57 d
- Broadcom · 7 open roles · median 41 d
How we counted: 153 open Mixed-Signal Design (Mixed Signal) roles from 42 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 Sept 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 Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.