Principal/Lead Digital RTL Design Engineer (Power Management ICs) - Austin, United States
Digital Design & SoC Architecture
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
Work on digital power management ICs.
About the role
This role involves developing, debugging, 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 environments.
- Write tests to verify 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 functional 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.
Market context
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 62-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1021
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Median days open
62 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 (1021 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 24 | 1021 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 87 | 3198 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 62 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 140 open roles · median 62 d
- Synopsys · 85 open roles · median 30 d
- AMD · 71 open roles · median 36 d
- Analog Devices · 48 open roles · median 50 d
- NVIDIA · 46 open roles · median 64 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 41 open roles · median 85 d
How we counted: 1021 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.