Senior Staff Digital Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior Staff Digital Design Engineer

Role Summary

Design digital subsystems and IP for mixed-signal SoCs, working from architecture through production silicon. Collaborate with analog, verification, layout, and test teams to deliver high-performance, manufacturable ASICs.

Experience Level

Senior — experience guidance provided: Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years, Master’s with 8+ years, PhD with 6+ years of relevant digital IC design experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include architecture, RTL development, verification, and silicon bring-up for digital blocks in mixed-signal products.

• Design and implement digital subsystems and IP blocks from architecture through tape-out.
• Develop RTL using Verilog and integrate blocks into larger SoC environments.
• Design and verify DSP, control, and data-path logic, including calibration and monitoring state machines.
• Perform functional and integration verification and support UVM-based verification teams.
• Contribute to behavioral and system modeling of digital and mixed-signal systems.
• Support post-silicon validation, characterization, lab bring-up, and silicon debug.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure correct interaction between digital logic and analog circuitry.
• Participate in design reviews, tape-out readiness checks, and root-cause analysis for silicon or system issues.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

• Strong Verilog RTL design experience.
• Deep understanding of the digital design flow: microarchitecture, RTL development, timing constraints, and synthesis.
• Clock and reset domain crossing (CDC) expertise.
• Functional verification experience and familiarity working with UVM-based teams.
• Experience designing and verifying complex state machines and control logic.
• Familiarity with CMOS VLSI design fundamentals.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; ability to work effectively in team-based, fast-paced environments.

Nice-to-have:

• Digital Signal Processing (DSP) background, including FIR/IIR implementations.
• Experience with ARM-based SoCs, bus architectures, and microprocessor subsystems.
• Experience with mixed-signal IC development and digital/analog interaction.
• Exposure to low-power and high-performance ASIC design techniques.
• Back-end flow experience: synthesis, place & route, and timing analysis.
• Experience generating test vectors and supporting production or probe test environments.
• Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink or similar tools for modeling and validation.
• Strong lab and silicon validation skills, including silicon debug and characterization.

Education Requirements

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Experience guidance in the posting: Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years relevant digital IC design experience; Master’s degree with 8+ years; PhD with 6+ years.

About the Company

Company: Cirrus Logic

Headquarters: Austin, TX, United States

Designer and manufacturer of high-precision analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, specializing in audio and voice processing solutions for consumer electronics and mobile devices, including audio codecs, converters, and SoCs.