ASIC RTL Design Engineer

Job Title

ASIC RTL Design Engineer

Role Summary

As a front-end ASIC/RTL engineer on the Wi‑Fi SoC team you will implement and verify digital IP blocks and subsystems, drive SoC integration, and support tape-out. You will collaborate with architecture, verification, software, DFT, and implementation teams to deliver low-power Wi‑Fi SoCs.

Experience Level

Mid-level / Experienced. The posting lists an experienced level; no specific years of experience are specified.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities cover RTL development, verification, and SoC integration across the digital design flow.

• Implement and maintain RTL for IP blocks and subsystems through to tape-out.
• Integrate and verify IPs and subsystems within SoCs, ensuring functionality and performance targets are met.
• Develop and maintain verification environments and drive coverage-driven functional verification and sign-off.
• Implement and optimize low-power design techniques and UPF flows.
• Support synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), FPGA prototyping, and pre-silicon validation.
• Investigate and resolve LEC and VCLP violations as part of design quality sign-off.
• Produce technical specifications, documentation, and provide mentoring to colleagues.

Requirements

Key technical skills and tools required; concise list of must-haves and relevant experience.

• Proven experience in digital IC design, verification, synthesis, STA, or pre-silicon prototyping.
• Strong understanding of RTL design and verification principles and the end-to-end digital design flow.
• Knowledge of RTL implementation flows and downstream constraints: synthesis, timing, clock-domain crossing, low-power/UPF and DFT.
• Proficiency in hardware description languages: SystemVerilog, Verilog and VHDL.
• Experience running and debugging LEC and VCLP violations for design sign-off.
• Familiarity with functional verification and coverage-driven sign-off; experience with industry EDA toolchains.
• Scripting skills (Tcl, Python) and comfort working in a Linux environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Education Requirements

BSc or MSc in Electronics Engineering (or similar) is specified in the posting.

About the Company

Company: Nordic Semiconductor

Headquarters: Trondheim, Norway

Norwegian fabless semiconductor company that designs low-power wireless connectivity solutions and system-on-chips (SoCs) for IoT, including Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, Zigbee, LTE-M/NB-IoT, Wi‑Fi, and cloud services (nRF Cloud).