Senior Engineer, GPU RTL Design

Samsung Electronics America; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 124,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

vision

life insurance

401(k)

onsite lunch

employee purchase program

tuition assistance (after 6 months)

paid time off

wellness incentives

many more

Job summary

Samsung Electronics America is seeking a Senior GPU RTL Design Engineer to contribute to RTL blocks and subsystems for cutting-edge mobile GPU IPs. You will work with architecture, power, physical design, and verification teams to deliver robust, scalable designs across multiple IP generations.

In this role, you will translate specifications into efficient RTL, drive the design lifecycle from microarchitecture to RTL, and ensure high-quality, production-ready silicon.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in semiconductor RTL design for complex SoC, CPU, or GPU architectures.
• Hands-on RTL design using Verilog/SystemVerilog, including microarchitecture development, integration, and debug.
• Working knowledge of GPU or high-performance digital design concepts, including control logic, datapath, memory systems, and cache design.
• Experience with front-end ASIC design flows, including linting, synthesis, timing analysis, and design quality checks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical documentation.
• Excellent collaboration skills in a fast-paced, global team.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of RTL blocks and subsystems for mobile GPU IPs.
• Collaborate with architecture, power, physical design and emulation/silicon teams across multiple GPU domains.
• Translate architectural specs into efficient, scalable hardware designs.
• Drive RTL lifecycle from microarchitecture through RTL development, integration, and simulation readiness.
• Support design quality, verification, issue resolution, and robust production-ready designs.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

GPU architecture

front-end ASIC flows

timing analysis

design verification

analytical skills

communication skills

collaboration

Tools

Verilog/SystemVerilog tooling

debug/integration tools

Job description

Role and Responsibilities

As a Senior GPU RTL Design Engineer, you will contribute to the design and development of complex RTL blocks and subsystems for Samsung's next-generation mobile GPU IPs, delivering high-quality, scalable implementations that power premium smartphones and adjacent consumer technologies. In this individual contributor role, you will collaborate closely with architecture, power, physical design and emulation/silicon teams and work across multiple GPU functional domains—including control, datapath, cache and memory systems. You bring curiosity, RTL design knowledge, and microarchitectural understanding to support design decisions, resolve cross-block challenges, and ensure robust, production-ready GPU designs across multiple IP generations. You contribute to the microarchitecture definition and RTL implementation of complex GPU blocks and subsystems, translating architectural specifications into efficient, maintainable, and scalable hardware designs. You enjoy learning about the RTL lifecycle, help driving design from microarchitecture through RTL development, integration, debug, and simulation readiness while ensuring consistent execution across multiple functional areas and projects. You support technical excellence by driving design quality and accuracy, developing clean, synthesizable RTL, and collaborating with verification teams to enable thorough validation, resolve functional issues, and ensure coverage, robustness, and sustainability. You help resolving functional design challenges, working with architecture, physical design, and system-level teams to address interface definition, timing, power, performance, and area tradeoffs early in the design cycle. You take initiatives on moderate-to-complex projects and help advance best practices, methodologies by exploring emerging GPU technologies and RTL design methodologies.

Skills and Qualifications

• Relevant experience - in semiconductor RTL design for complex SoC, CPU, or GPU architectures.


• Hands-on experience in RTL design using Verilog/SystemVerilog, including microarchitecture development, integration, and debug.


• Working knowledge of GPU or high-performance digital design concepts, including control logic, datapath, memory systems, and Cache design.


• Working knowledge of interpreting architectural specifications and driving design tradeoffs across performance, power, and area (PPA).


• Experience with front-end ASIC design flows, including linting, synthesis, timing analysis, and design quality checks.


• Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and propose data-driven solutions.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation.


• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity a fast-paced, global team environment.

Our Team

The GPU Project and RTL teams at SARC/ACL own the microarchitecture development of features for Samsung’s current and next-generation mobile GPU IPs. Our work spans core RTL design, front-end implementation, power and performance optimization, firmware enablement, and the infrastructure needed to deliver scalable, production-ready designs. Through cross-functional collaboration, we translate architectural concepts into high-quality RTL that delivers market-differentiating performance and energy efficiency. Our Xclipse GPU is the industry’s first mobile GPU with hardware ray tracing technology, enabling console-level graphics on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. You will join a diverse, highly collaborative organization working across concurrent-development cycles, with direct impact on consumer technologies used worldwide.

Total Rewards

At Samsung – SARC/ACL, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $124,000 and $208,400. Your actual base pay will depend on variables that may include your education skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. Samsung employees have access to benefits including:

• medical


• dental


• vision


• life insurance


• 401(k)


• onsite lunch


• employee purchase program


• tuition assistance (after 6 months)


• paid time off


• wellness incentives


• many more

In addition, regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) are eligible for MBO bonus compensation, based on company, division, and individual performance. Additionally, this role might be eligible to participate in long term incentive plan and relocation. This is an exempt position, which is not eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Trade Secrets

By submitting an application, you agree not to disclose to Samsung or induce or encourage Samsung to use any confidential or proprietary information (including trade secrets) belonging to a current or former employer or other entity.

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About Samsung

Samsung Electronics is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, digital appliances, and network systems, and the entire semiconductor industry with our memory, system LSI, foundry, and LED solutions. Samsung is also leading in the development of the Internet of Things through, among others, our Smart Home and Digital Health initiatives. Since being established in 1969, Samsung Electronics has grown into one of the world’s leading technology companies, and become recognized as one of the top global brands. Our network now extends across the world, and Samsung takes great pride in the creativity and diversity of its talented people, who drive our growth. To discover more, please visit our official newsroom at (https://news.samsung.com/global/).