Semiconductor Design Engineer, DRAM: Senior, Staff, or Principal - Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
Originally posted 13 August 2026 by the employer.
This role involves developing advanced DRAM and emerging memory products.
About the role
This role involves developing advanced DRAM and emerging memory products from concept through silicon validation. You will contribute across circuit design, simulation, verification, and optimization.
What you'll do
- Design, simulate, and optimize digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuits for DRAM and emerging memory products.
- Translate product requirements into circuit solutions and validate performance across operating conditions.
- Perform circuit verification, silicon correlation, debug, and tape-out support activities.
- Collaborate with design, verification, layout, CAD, product, and process teams to improve product quality and manufacturability.
- Contribute to design automation, AI-assisted workflows, technical reviews, and engineering protocols.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in semiconductor circuit design, CMOS design, memory design, or analog/mixed-signal development.
- Strong knowledge of CMOS circuits, device physics, digital logic, simulation, and design verification.
- Experience using schematic capture, circuit simulation, waveform analysis, and debug using industry-standard EDA tools.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Experience with DRAM, NAND, SRAM, HBM, DDR, LPDDR, GDDR, or other high-performance memory technologies.
- Experience with circuit blocks such as memory arrays, sense amplifiers, datapaths, clocking, control logic, or I/O circuitry.
- Experience with physical design, parasitic analysis, timing analysis, signal integrity, or power delivery networks.
- Experience using Python, Tcl, Perl, applying AI tools, or automation workflows to improve design productivity and quality.
Skills: DRAM, memory products, circuit design, CMOS design, analog/mixed-signal, circuit verification
This role has been open 52 days — well below the 69-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
287
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Median days open
69 d
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Median salary
$205k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (287 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 153 | 287 |
| Median days open | 86 d | 69 d (+17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: DRAM, memory products, circuit design, CMOS design, analog/mixed-signal, circuit verification
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology (this employer) · 151 open roles · median 86 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 49 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 32 d
- Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm · 12 open roles · median 149 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 287 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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.