Senior Digital Design Engineer - Lead, Verify & Automate

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a senior digital design engineer to lead design blocks, develop and verify digital designs in pre- and post-silicon environments. You will mentor juniors, write tests, and drive automation scripts to improve the design flow.

Join a team delivering industry‑leading digital chips, using SystemVerilog test benches, Cadence or Synopsys tools, and backend design flow expertise. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Prior design project work showing collaboration and innovation.
• Comfortable debugging mixed-signal designs in SystemVerilog test benches.
• Exposed to gate-level simulation debugging.
• Strong analytical and debugging methodology.
• Good written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience with Cadence or Synopsys design tool flows.
• Hands-on leadership role resulting in successful projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, and verify digital designs in pre- and post-silicon environments.
• Write tests to verify bulk design intent per specifications.
• Learn, develop and improve scripts to facilitate design automation flows.
• Manage assigned design blocks in design requirements, architecture, and implementation.
• Research and present new tools to aid the design development process.
• Act as technical mentor for junior engineers.
• Represent digital design as the lead in design projects.

Skills

Digital design

Verification

SystemVerilog

Test benches

Python/Perl scripting

Leadership

ARM Cortex-M

Mixed-signal debugging

Backend design

Cadence/Synopsys

Automation scripts

Education

BSc/MSc in EE/ECE

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys

ARM Cortex-M toolchains

Scripting environments

Design verification tools

Job description

Renesas Electronics is seeking a senior digital design engineer to lead design blocks, develop and verify digital designs in pre- and post-silicon environments. You will mentor juniors, write tests, and drive automation scripts to improve the design flow.

Join a team delivering industry‑leading digital chips, using SystemVerilog test benches, Cadence or Synopsys tools, and backend design flow expertise. Strong communication and leadership are essential.