Senior Staff Digital Design Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 15 April 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Digital Design Engineer, you will contribute to the design of system-on-chip (SoC) devices, digital signal processing blocks, and digital control logic interfacing with ADCs, DACs, amplifiers, and power management circuitry. You will take digital subsystems from concept through tape-out to production silicon, collaborating across analog, verification, layout, and test teams.
What you'll do
- Design and implement digital subsystems and IP blocks for mixed-signal ICs from architecture through tape-out. - Develop RTL designs using Verilog and support integration into SoC environments. - Design and verify DSP, control, and data-path logic, including calibration and monitoring state machines. - Perform functional verification, integration verification, and support UVM-based verification teams. - Support behavioral and system modeling of digital and mixed-signal systems. - Support post-silicon validation, characterization, and production test, including lab bring-up and silicon debug.
What you'll need
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (Bachelor's with 10+ years, Master's with 8+ years, or PhD with 6+ years of relevant digital IC design experience). - Strong working knowledge of Verilog RTL design. - Solid understanding of the digital design flow, including microarchitecture, clock and reset domain crossing, functional verification, timing constraints, and synthesis. - Experience designing and verifying complex state machines and control logic. - Familiarity with CMOS VLSI design fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Expertise or strong background in Digital Signal Processing (DSP), including implementing FIR and IIR filters and signal-processing algorithms. - Familiarity with ARM-based SoCs, microprocessor subsystems, buses, and peripherals. - Experience with mixed-signal IC development, including interaction between digital and analog circuitry. - Exposure to low-power and high-performance ASIC design techniques. - Experience with back-end flows, including synthesis, place & route, and timing analysis. - Proficiency with MATLAB, Simulink, or similar tools for modeling, algorithm development, and validation.
Skills: digital subsystems, RTL design, Verilog, DSP, mixed-signal ICs, tape-out
This role has been open 192 days — well above the 64-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1083
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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, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (1083 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 1083 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 29 | 3310 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 192 d | 64 d (+128 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: digital subsystems, RTL design, Verilog, DSP, mixed-signal ICs, tape-out
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 160 open roles · median 61 d
- Synopsys · 87 open roles · median 37 d
- AMD · 77 open roles · median 43 d
- Analog Devices · 49 open roles · median 54 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 42 open roles · median 93 d
- NVIDIA · 40 open roles · median 64 d
How we counted: 1083 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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.