Arm
Memory Design Engineer
$130K–$176K
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 2–5 years of circuit design experience; Bachelor's degree route requires relevant work experience.
- Education
- Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or another relevant technical field with emphasis in VLSI design, or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with relevant work experience.
About the job
Designs and validates custom memories for Arm CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs on advanced process technologies, optimizing performance, power, and area.
What you'll do
- Design memory circuits at transistor level and collaborate with physical design teams on layout realization.
- Develop, optimize, verify, characterize, and release memories across the development flow, including design margining, physical verification, FE verification, and QA.
- Use AI to develop scripts that improve execution efficiency and quality.
What they ask for
- Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or another relevant technical field with emphasis in VLSI design, or a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with relevant work experience.
- Project experience in physical IP design, such as memories, standard cells, IOs, or PHYs.
- Understanding of memory principles, especially SRAM, and technology trade-offs in deep sub-micron technologies.
- Experience with Cadence Virtuoso or similar schematic and layout editing tools, and with Spice and FastSpice simulators.
Nice to have
- SRAM circuit design experience.
- Designed on silicon technologies equal to or smaller than 28nm; exposure to CMOS layout, Monte-Carlo simulations, Perl, .tcl, Java, UNIX, or AI tools.
Pay
$130,100-$176,000 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
Cadence Virtuoso, Spice, FastSpice, Perl, .tcl, java, UNIX, AI
AI focus
Use AI to develop scripts that improve execution efficiency and quality; familiarity with AI tools is a nice-to-have.
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