Senior Digital Design Engineer, SoC and AI

Job Title

Senior Digital Design Engineer, SoC and AI

Role Summary

Lead digital SoC design activities and take technical ownership of internal AI-assisted engineering tools used across the IC design flow. Work with cross-functional teams to deliver mixed-signal SoC products from specification through silicon and production.

Primary mission: integrate AI/LLM capabilities into requirements/specification workflows and maintain the internal tooling that automates specification, RTL development, and verification tasks.

Experience Level

Senior - typically requires 5+ years of relevant digital IC/SoC design experience, including delivery of silicon from specification to production.

Responsibilities

Deliver technical ownership of tools and perform hands-on digital design work; collaborate with domain teams to ensure SoC integration and product validation.

• Own and maintain internal engineering tools: enhance codebase, fix defects, manage documentation, releases, and support users.
• Develop and validate AI-assisted workflows that convert product requirements into discipline-specific specifications with traceability and change management.
• Build automated tests and review processes to verify completeness, consistency, and correctness of generated specifications and outputs.
• Translate system and product requirements into digital specifications and micro-architectures; develop RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Integrate embedded processors, memories, peripherals, register maps, and on-chip buses into mixed-signal SoCs.
• Execute lint, CDC/RDC analysis, synthesis, static timing analysis, low-power design, and support physical implementation and timing closure.
• Collaborate with system, analog, verification, firmware, and physical design teams on integration, clock/reset architectures, design reviews, and verification planning.
• Support silicon bring-up, lab debugging, and product validation through transition to volume production.

Requirements

Required technical skills, experience, and attributes.

Must-have

• Proven hands-on experience integrating AI-based tools into IC design workflows, with demonstrable implemented solutions (requirements engineering, specification generation, RTL, verification, or design-flow automation).
• 5+ years of relevant digital IC/SoC design experience, including delivery from specification to silicon.
• Strong practical experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog, RTL design, and digital subsystem integration.
• Solid understanding of SoC architectures: embedded processors, memories, peripherals, register architectures, and on-chip buses (e.g., AMBA AHB/APB).
• Experience with lint, CDC/RDC, synthesis, static timing analysis, timing closure, clock/reset architectures, and low-power techniques.
• Practical software-development skills: maintain and extend application codebases, version control, testing, debugging, documentation, and release management.
• Proficiency in Python (or comparable language) for automation; familiarity with Tcl is an advantage.
• Ability to take ongoing ownership of internal tools and to prioritize and resolve issues in collaboration with users.
• Experience collaborating across analog/mixed-signal, verification, firmware, and physical design, including silicon bring-up and debug.
• Strong analytical skills, clear communication, and ability to work effectively in an international engineering team; fluent English.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with mixed-signal SoCs for power-management or wireless-power applications and embedded MCU architectures.
• Experience developing LLM applications, model API integration, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluating output quality/reliability.
• Familiarity with requirements-management systems, decomposition and traceability across engineering disciplines.
• Experience using AI to assist software development, including review, debugging, and testing of generated code.

Education Requirements

MSc or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

About the Company

Company: Renesas

Headquarters: Hitachinaka, Japan

Renesas is a global leader in embedded semiconductor solutions, providing high-quality products across automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors. With over 22,000 employees in more than 30 countries, the company focuses on scalable solutions that enhance user experience and drive innovation while committed to sustainability and energy efficiency.