Senior Director, SerDes Digital Design
$306,000 - $337,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Upscale, Inc. is hiring a Senior Director, SerDes Digital Design to direct high-performance infrastructure engineering. This role focuses on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking.
What you'll do
- Direct digital design and architecture for high-performance SerDes silicon implementations.
- Execute first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking interfaces.
- Lead technical rigor, ownership, and execution across talent-dense digital engineering teams.
What you'll need
- Experience in SerDes digital design, architecture, and silicon execution.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in high-performance silicon and networking environments.
- Track record of delivering high-performance infrastructure for demanding compute workloads.
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This role has been open 1 day — well below the 59-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1044
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Median days open
59 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Upscale AI | All employers we track in this specialty (1044 roles · 100 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 1044 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 7 | 3314 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 64 d | 59 d (+5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 141 open roles · median 66 d
- Synopsys · 84 open roles · median 43 d
- AMD · 81 open roles · median 44 d
- Analog Devices · 46 open roles · median 55 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 44 open roles · median 98 d
- Intel Corporation · 34 open roles · median 22 d
How we counted: 1044 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 100 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 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.