Senior Digital IC Design Engineer - Marin-Epagnier, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Originally posted 21 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves the development of embedded MCU/DSP systems, hardware accelerators, and peripheral IPs. The group develops these systems and accelerators for a variety of products and markets.
What you'll do
- Architect, specify, implement, simulate, and benchmark MCU and DSP systems as well as hardware accelerators and peripheral IPs.
- Consult product integration teams in the definition, integration, and use of these systems.
- Participate in the verification and FPGA prototyping of these systems.
- Coordinate SDK development with the software team.
- Lead project activities.
- Contribute to design methodology and design flow improvements.
What you'll need
- MS in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
- At least 6 years of relevant work experience in semiconductor product development, including engineering leadership.
- Experience with embedded CPUs (e.g. ARM Cortex, RISC-V, DSP), AMBA bus protocols (AHB/APB).
- RTL design of digital IP blocks and systems in Verilog/SystemVerilog.
- Strong technical document writing skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Nice to have
- Experience in Project/task leadership.
- Design of CPU/MCU (sub)systems, SystemRDL or IP-XACT.
- Programming in Python for automation and in C/C++ for embedded software.
- Experience with Design intent (timing constraints/SDC, power intent/UPF).
- Design of accelerators and signal processing components.
- Experience with RTL to GDS flow, including logic synthesis, place-and-route, STA, power analysis.
- Experience with Advanced digital verification methodology (e.g. UVM).
Skills: embedded MCU/DSP systems, hardware accelerators, peripheral IPs, RTL design, Verilog/SystemVerilog, AMBA bus protocols
This role has been open 38 days — well below the 63-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
964
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Median days open
63 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | onsemi | All employers we track in this specialty (964 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 32 | 964 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 56 | 3077 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 102 d | 63 d (+39 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: embedded MCU/DSP systems, hardware accelerators, peripheral IPs, RTL design, Verilog/SystemVerilog, AMBA bus protocols
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 139 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 67 open roles · median 63 d
- Synopsys · 63 open roles · median 23 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 54 open roles · median 71 d
- Analog Devices · 46 open roles · median 36 d
- NVIDIA · 46 open roles · median 52 d
How we counted: 964 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 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.