Cryo CMOS Digital IC Design Engineer – Quantum

GlobalFoundries inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries is seeking a Senior Digital IC Design Engineer to develop digital and mixed-signal ICs for cryogenic CMOS and quantum systems. You will drive designs from architecture and RTL through physical implementation, tapeout, and silicon validation, partnering with PDK, modeling, and test teams.

Responsibilities include verification strategy development, synthesis, timing closure, and collaboration across technology and EDA teams to enable advanced semiconductor applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, or a related field.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Microelectronics, or related is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop 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 and execute 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

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Digital IC design

Synthesis/STA

DFT/scan

Power/Timing optimization

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, or related

Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Microelectronics, or related

Tools

EDA tools

Job description

GlobalFoundries is seeking a Senior Digital IC Design Engineer to develop digital and mixed-signal ICs for cryogenic CMOS and quantum systems. You will drive designs from architecture and RTL through physical implementation, tapeout, and silicon validation, partnering with PDK, modeling, and test teams.

Responsibilities include verification strategy development, synthesis, timing closure, and collaboration across technology and EDA teams to enable advanced semiconductor applications.