CareerPlan

Senior Principal Digital IC Design Engineer

Santa Clara, CA, USFull-time$182k–$273k2026-09-22 → 2026-11-11
Based in United States

Core

Design, develop, implement, verify, and document micro-architecture and RTL for complex power management integrated circuits used in high-speed interconnects for hyperscaler data centers.

Role type

Senior Principal Digital IC Design Engineer

Builds

High-performance mixed-signal ICs for data center interconnects

Domain

Semiconductor / Data Center Infrastructure / Digital IC Design

Required skills

Verilog/SystemVerilog, Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis (STA), Low Power Design, Perl/Python scripting, RTL linting, CDC analysis, Micro-architecture design, Register specification

Preferred skills

802.3 standards, Serdes design, Digital Signal Processing, Error Correction codes, Physical layer protocols

Technologies

Verilog, SystemVerilog, Spyglass, Perl, Python

Responsibilities

Design and verify micro-architecture and RTL for power management ICs; Collaborate with system architects on industrial quality implementations; Participate in full design cycle from spec to silicon bring-up; Mentor other digital design engineers

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC design with mentorship