Sr. System RTL Designer/Serdes Architect - CA, San Jose, United States
$203,000 - $348,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 May 2026 by the employer.
Focus on SerDes, fabrics, and memory subsystem architecture for CPU, GPU, and SoC designs.
About the role
AMD is seeking a senior-level System RTL designer with a background in IP architecture to guide architecture directions and complex IP integration. In this role, you will balance performance, power, and area across CPU, GPU, and SoC silicon designs.
What you'll do
- Define IP features and capabilities while owning architecture and micro-architecture requirements. - Drive technical specifications for IP blocks and provide technical direction to execution teams. - Align and optimize hardware silicon, firmware, and feature enablement for performance and power. - Own architecture analysis, resolve architecture-level issues, and support feature-change requests. - Partner with design teams on area/floorplan refinement, timing targets, verification test plans, and pre-silicon debug and performance sign-off. - Support post-silicon teams for performance tuning, power optimization, and issue debug.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. - Background in System RTL design and IP architecture. - Experience delivering silicon solutions balancing performance, power, and area (PPA).
Nice to have
- Expertise in systems and IP architecture with a focus on SerDes, fabrics, memory subsystems, I/O, clocking, or security. - Experience analyzing CPU/GPU/system-level performance bottlenecks and workloads. - Knowledge of power management, low power microarchitecture, and design methodologies.
This role has been open 150 days — well above the 63-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
|
Open roles in category
1084
|
Median days open
63 d
|
Median salary
$185k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (1084 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 77 | 1084 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 251 | 3328 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 42 d | 63 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 160 open roles · median 60 d
- Synopsys · 87 open roles · median 36 d
- AMD (this employer) · 77 open roles · median 42 d
- Analog Devices · 49 open roles · median 53 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 42 open roles · median 92 d
- NVIDIA · 39 open roles · median 64 d
How we counted: 1084 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.