SRAM Circuit Design Engineer - MA, Boxborough, United States
Originally posted 4 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves the design and optimization of high-performance SRAM and memory structures fundamental to modern CPU architectures.
What you'll do
- Contribute to the physical design and implementation of high-speed SRAM and memory structures for advanced CPU products.
- Collaborate with architecture, RTL, circuit design, and physical design teams to optimize power, performance, area, and schedule.
- Perform floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, and design optimization.
- Analyze and resolve implementation, timing, power, and signoff challenges.
- Support physical verification, extraction, reliability analysis, and design signoff activities.
- Create technical presentations, design reviews, and documentation for engineering teams and management.
What you'll need
- Experience with high-speed SRAM design, memory design, or memory-centric physical implementation.
- Strong understanding of CPU, cache, or other performance-critical digital designs.
- Strong understanding of computer architecture, hardware design concepts, and performance, power, and area tradeoffs.
- Knowledge of chip-level floorplanning, bus and pin planning, clock tree synthesis, placement, optimization, routing, and timing closure.
- Experience with parasitic extraction, static timing analysis, physical verification, and design signoff methodologies.
- Familiarity with power integrity analysis, including IR-drop and electromigration.
- Ability to comprehend complex Verilog RTL and make modifications to support timing, power, or implementation objectives.
- Knowledge of digital circuits, including high-speed flops, synchronizers, level shifters, and SRAM.
- Experience using industry-standard EDA tools for physical design and implementation.
- Familiarity with Tcl, Perl, C, or Python.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Skills: SRAM, memory structures, physical design, timing closure, CPU architectures
This role has been open 30 days — well below the 69-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
287
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Median days open
69 d
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Median salary
$205k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (287 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 287 |
| Median days open | 113 d | 69 d (+44 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: SRAM, memory structures, physical design, timing closure, CPU architectures
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 151 open roles · median 86 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 49 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 32 d
- Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm · 12 open roles · median 149 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 287 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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. Figures refresh nightly.