Senior Digital Design Engineer - Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Digital Design & SoC Architecture
Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves the design and development of digital circuit architectures for complex mixed-signal products and IPs within the High-Performance Mixed-Signal R&D division.
What you'll do
- Design and develop new digital circuit architectures from concept through to production on advanced process nodes.
- Develop block level testbenches.
- Collaborate with engineers on the delivery of complex mixed-signal products and IPs.
- Contribute to technical reviews and ensure IP quality using checklists.
- Supervise junior engineers and influence team growth.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s, Master's or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering with extensive background in digital CMOS circuit design.
- Implementation of complex digital circuits and sub-systems in RTL using Verilog / SystemVerilog.
- Understanding of digital system-level design, including standard bus protocols, bus architecture design, and chip-level clock and reset architectures.
- Verification of block-level digital designs.
- Understanding of synthesis and timing analysis of digital circuits.
Nice to have
- Experience working within UVM based verification environments.
- Scripting and automation of design tasks.
- Experience with AMBA, SPI, I2C protocols.
- Lab and silicon validation skills; experience of chip bring-up and debug from design perspective.
- Understanding of Linting, CDC and RDC tools.
- Collaboration with DFT and Place and Route teams.
- Board level interface standards and interface design.
- Experience with clock generation circuits and handling multiple clock domains.
- Experience with Power gating and low power design techniques.
- Experience with ARM, RISC-V, or similar microcontrollers as well as memory controllers.
- DSP filter design using MATLAB and signal analysis techniques.
Market context
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 64-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
977
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Median days open
64 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 | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (977 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 977 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 28 | 3076 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 162 d | 64 d (+98 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 140 open roles · median 60 d
- AMD · 68 open roles · median 64 d
- Synopsys · 62 open roles · median 21 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 53 open roles · median 71 d
- Analog Devices · 49 open roles · median 35 d
- NVIDIA · 49 open roles · median 49 d
How we counted: 977 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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 Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
On-site
Full-time
9 days ago