About the role
AMD is hiring a Silicon Design Engineer to research, design, develop, and test electronic components and systems for semiconductor and related device manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Perform definition, design, verification, and documentation for ASIC development.
- Determine architecture design, logic design, and system simulation, including defining module interfaces and formats for simulation.
- Contribute to the development of multidimensional designs involving the layout of complex integrated circuits.
- Evaluate aspects of the process flow from high-level designs to synthesis, place and route, and timing and power use.
- Apply engineering principles, best practices, and technologies to the design, development, and testing of various AMD products.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- Experience with C, C++, or Python.
- Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL.
- Experience with CPU, GPU, or SoC Architecture.
- Experience with ASIC design and tools, including synthesis, simulation, equivalence checking, and static timing analysis.
- Experience with RTL design and coding, data structures, memory management, and Unix or Linux environments.
Skills: RTL design, Verilog, ASIC, System Verilog, SoC Architecture
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 62-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1084
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Median days open
62 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$188k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (1084 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 86 | 1084 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 265 | 3517 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 62 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $188k |
Skills observed across this category: RTL design, Verilog, ASIC, System Verilog, SoC Architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 140 open roles · median 72 d
- Synopsys · 92 open roles · median 49 d
- AMD (this employer) · 78 open roles · median 48 d
- NVIDIA · 45 open roles · median 62 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 45 open roles · median 105 d
- Analog Devices · 41 open roles · median 52 d
How we counted: 1084 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 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.