Principal Engineer, Electrical Design - Austin, United States
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
Work on advanced digital power management ICs.
About the role
This role involves developing and verifying digital designs for advanced digital power management ICs.
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.
- Learn, 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.
- Represent digital design as functional digital design lead in design projects.
What you'll need
- BSc/MSc in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering (EE/ECE) and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Prior design project work experience showing collaborative and innovative thinking.
- 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 etc).
- Strong analytical skills and debug methodology.
- Good written and verbal communications skills.
- 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 in general.
- Exposure to mixed signal designs w/ 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.
Skills: digital design, Verilog, SystemVerilog, serial interfaces, mixed-signal designs
This role has been open 11 days — well below the 60-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1019
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Median days open
60 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (1019 roles · 98 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 25 | 1019 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 84 | 3166 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 60 d (−13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: digital design, Verilog, SystemVerilog, serial interfaces, mixed-signal designs
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 139 open roles · median 60 d
- Synopsys · 86 open roles · median 24 d
- AMD · 73 open roles · median 34 d
- Analog Devices · 50 open roles · median 41 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 48 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA · 46 open roles · median 64 d
How we counted: 1019 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 98 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.