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Intern Chip Design Summer Positions: Find IC Internships

Summer internships at chip companies are the single best on-ramp into a semiconductor design career.

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Seniority Level Keywords Physical Design Entry Level

Junior Physical Design Engineer Jobs: Start Your PnR Career

Junior physical design engineer roles are the fastest path to hands-on back-end IC design experience at the block level.

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Seniority Level Keywords New Grad RTL Design

New Grad RTL Engineer Positions: Launch Your Design Career

Everything you need to know about new grad RTL engineer positions, from daily responsibilities and top employers to salary ranges and how to stand out as a recent graduate.

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Seniority Level Keywords Entry Level ASIC Design

Entry Level ASIC Design Engineer Jobs: Start Your IC Career

A practical look at entry level ASIC design engineer jobs, including daily responsibilities, top employers, salary ranges, and what makes new-grad candidates stand out.

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Job Role Variations Analog Mixed-Signal

SerDes Design Engineer Jobs: Find High-Speed I/O Roles

What SerDes design engineers build, which sub-blocks they specialize in, and where the role pays at companies pushing 112 Gbps and beyond.

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Job Role Variations Physical Design Floorplanning

Floor Planning Physical Design Jobs: Find Block Layout Roles

What floor planning engineers actually do on large SoC programs, who hires them, and what the role pays across company tiers.

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Job Role Variations clock tree synthesis CTS physical design

Clock Tree Synthesis Engineer Jobs: Find CTS Roles

CTS engineers build the clock distribution networks that deliver synchronized edges to millions of flip-flops, and hiring is steady across advanced-node design teams.

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Job Role Variations PDN design power delivery network IR-drop

PDN Design Engineer Jobs: Find Power Network Design Roles

PDN design engineers architect the power delivery networks that route VDD and GND from package bumps to every transistor on a chip.

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Job Role Variations netlist engineering LEC ECO flows

Netlist Engineer Positions: Browse IC Implementation Roles

Netlist engineers own the gate-level handoff between synthesis and physical design, running ECO flows, LEC signoff, and DFT netlist verification.

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Job Role Variations embedded processor RISC-V Arm Cortex-M

Embedded Processor Design Engineer Jobs: Browse Roles

Embedded processor design engineers build the low-power cores inside microcontrollers, IoT devices, and automotive ECUs, and hiring is picking up fast.

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Custom Cell Design Engineer Jobs: Find Standard Cell Roles

Custom cell design engineers build and characterize the standard cell libraries that every digital ASIC depends on, working at the transistor level in Cadence Virtuoso.

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Job Role Variations pre-silicon validation FPGA prototyping

Pre-Silicon Validation Engineer Jobs: Browse FPGA Proto Roles

Pre-silicon validation engineers run FPGA prototype environments so software teams can begin development months before first silicon arrives.

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