Sr Principal Digital Design Engineer

NXP Semiconductors; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development opportunities

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors is hiring a Senior Digital Design Engineer in San Jose, CA to lead digital architecture and implementation for PMICs used in automotive and industrial applications. You will drive RTL development, integration, silicon bring-up, and production release, collaborating across multiple teams.

The role requires a strong background in Verilog/SystemVerilog, RTL design, UVM-based verification, and low-power techniques, with 10+ years in digital IC design and a MS degree in a related

Qualifications

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in digital IC design and development, including leadership and architecture responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, finite state machines, clock-domain crossing, reset architecture, and low-power techniques.
• Expertise in RTL design using Verilog/SystemVerilog for complex digital/mixed-signal ICs.
• Experience with synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, and DFT/physical implementation flows.
• Knowledge of modern verification methodologies (UVM, assertions, formal verification, coverage-driven verification).
• Experience developing digital controllers for PMICs or automotive/industrial applications is highly desirable.
• Proficiency with Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA tools.
• Strong analytical and communication skills for cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, IP architecture, and implementation plans for automotive/industrial PMIC applications.
• Define and implement digital architectures for PMICs, aligning with system requirements.
• Lead digital design from architecture to RTL, timing closure, and production release.
• Design digital control, monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, configuration, protection, and fault management functions for PMICs.
• Develop RTL, microarchitecture, and design specs using Verilog/SystemVerilog and standard design tools.
• Drive verification strategy including test plans, simulation, formal verification, and coverage analysis.
• Deliver complete IP solutions with RTL, verification collateral, and traceability.
• Track milestones, coverage, defects, and compliance; support silicon bring-up and ramp.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

UVM

Formal verification

Synthesis

Clock-domain crossing

Low-power design

Digital controllers

Power Management ICs (PMICs)

Education

MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys

Siemens EDA

Job description

Job Title: Senior Digital Design Engineer

Role Summary:

Lead digital architecture, design, verification, and implementation of next-generation Power Management ICs (PMICs) for automotive and industrial applications. Drive product execution from concept through RTL development, integration, silicon validation, qualification, and production release. Collaborate across analog, verification, validation, subsystem, SoC, applications, systems, product definition, and customer-facing teams to deliver high-quality mixed-signal solutions.

Job Responsibility:

• Review product requirements, IP architecture specifications, programming models, microarchitecture, interfaces, and implementation plans for automotive and industrial PMIC applications.
• Define and implement digital architectures for mixed-signal PMICs, ensuring alignment with system, performance, quality, reliability, safety, power, and area requirements.
• Lead digital design activities from architecture definition through RTL development, integration, synthesis, timing closure, low-power implementation, silicon bring-up, and production release.
• Design and develop digital control, monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, configuration, protection, power sequencing, and fault management functions for PMIC and power conversion products.
• Develop and review RTL, microarchitecture, and design specifications using Verilog/SystemVerilog and industry-standard design and quality checking tools.
• Drive verification strategy and execution, including test planning, simulation, formal verification, coverage analysis, regression management, and achievement of NXP quality and maturity standards.
• Deliver complete IP solutions, including RTL, verification collateral, supporting documentation, and requirements traceability from specification through implementation.
• Track development metrics including milestones, code and functional coverage, defect resolution, and compliance with design requirements.
• Support silicon debug, characterization, qualification, reliability validation, and production ramp activities.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive continuous improvement in design methodologies, automation flows, and engineering best practices.

Job Qualification:

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in digital IC design and development, including technical leadership and architecture responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, finite state machines, clock-domain crossing, reset architecture, and low-power design techniques.
• Expertise in RTL design using Verilog/SystemVerilog for complex digital and mixed-signal ICs.
• Experience with synthesis, static timing analysis, equivalence checking, DFT, and physical implementation flows.
• Strong knowledge of modern verification methodologies, including UVM, assertions, formal verification, and coverage-driven verification.
• Experience developing digital controllers for PMICs, power management systems, automotive electronics, or industrial applications is highly desirable.
• Proficiency with industry-standard EDA tools from Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to develop innovative solutions for complex technical challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced product development environment.

NXP Introduction:

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables a smarter, safer and more sustainable world through innovation. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is pushing boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. For more information, please visit our website https://www.nxp.com

Career Development Opportunities

Bright Minds. Bright Futures.

We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we offer online and offline learning opportunities to help you develop some of your core and professional skills.

Visit our careers website for more job information.

Commitment At NXP.

We recognize NXP is a powerful change agent as we continue to deliver innovative solutions that advance a more sustainable future. We remain steadfast in our commitment to sustainability and making measurable year-on-year progress. Also, we aim to create an inclusive work environment and we will not tolerate racism, discrimination or harassment of any kind. We have programs in place focused on diversity, inclusion and equality. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion | NXP Semiconductors

The base salary range for this position is as mentioned below per year. We also provide competitive benefits, incentive compensation, and/or equity for certain roles.

Company benefits include health. dental, and vision insurance. 401(k), and paid leave. Please note that the bas