Cryo CMOS Digital IC Design Engineer — Quantum

GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 98,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries is seeking a Digital IC Design Engineer to develop advanced digital and mixed-signal ICs and reusable IP for emerging applications, including cryogenic CMOS and quantum systems.

The role spans architecture, RTL, and physical implementation through tapeout and silicon validation, working with technology, PDK, modeling, verification, and test teams. 5+ years in digital IC/ASIC design preferred; travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant digital IC/ASIC design experience.
• Experience with RTL design and verification using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.
• Experience with ASIC design flows: synthesis, STA, clock/reset, DFT, physical implementation, timing closure, and signoff.
• Strong understanding of synchronous digital design, CDC, RDC, low-power, and PVT timing behavior.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.
• Fluency in English—written & verbal.

Responsibilities

• Design digital CMOS circuits, digital subsystems, and reusable IP for advanced semiconductor applications, including control, interface, timing, calibration, and signal-processing functions.
• Own digital IC development from microarchitecture and RTL implementation through functional verification, synthesis, timing closure, physical implementation, tapeout, and silicon validation.
• Develop verification strategies using simulation, assertions, coverage, and regression methodologies to ensure functional correctness and robust operation across intended use conditions.
• Perform and support synthesis, static timing analysis, clock/reset design, power analysis, design-for-test, and physical implementation activities, including post-layout verification and design signoff.
• Optimize digital architectures for power, performance, area, reliability, and operating-temperature requirements, including cryogenic operating conditions where applicable.
• Collaborate with PDK, device modeling, technology, analog, layout, and EDA teams to evaluate digital design methodology, libraries, timing models, design rules, and implementation flows for emerging technologies.
• Define silicon test and characterization requirements, analyze measured data, debug digital functionality and timing issues, and correlate silicon behavior with pre-silicon models and simulations.
• Lead technical design reviews, document design methodology and results, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional internal and external teams to enable customer and technology solutions.

Skills

RTL design

SystemVerilog

VHDL

Digital IC verification

Synthesis

Physical design

Clock domain crossing

Low-power design

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master’s or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

UVM

FPGA prototyping

DFT/scan

Python scripting

Job description

GlobalFoundries is seeking a Digital IC Design Engineer to develop advanced digital and mixed-signal ICs and reusable IP for emerging applications, including cryogenic CMOS and quantum systems.

The role spans architecture, RTL, and physical implementation through tapeout and silicon validation, working with technology, PDK, modeling, verification, and test teams. 5+ years in digital IC/ASIC design preferred; travel up to 10% may be required.