Digital Design Architect – Silicon IC (f / m / d)

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Digital Design Architect to join our team of skilled professionals in developing innovative silicon IC designs. This role offers the opportunity to work across the full digital design flow—from requirements specification through implementation, verification, and documentation—while also providing technical leadership and direction to project teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and devise the digital architecture of the next generation NFC products
• Lead the design and development of digital circuits for custom silicon ICs using RTL (VHDL / Verilog / SystemVerilog).
• Drive block- and top-level RTL implementation, synthesis, and timing closure in collaboration with physical design teams.
• Plan and execute robust functional verification strategies (UVM, directed testing, formal methods).
• Translate system-level requirements into detailed digital design specifications and documentation.
• Manage and ensure requirements traceability and compliance throughout the design lifecycle.
• Collaborate effectively with analog, software, systems, and test engineering teams.
• Serve as a technical leader or project lead—coordinating design activities, planning tasks, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Participate in and contribute to technical documentation, design reviews, and milestone readiness assessments.

Qualifications

Company Description

Renesas is a global semiconductor company providing hardware and software solutions for a range of cutting-edge technologies including self-driving cars, robots, automated factory equipment, and smart home applications. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas is a global, multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company headquartered in Japan, and has subsidiaries in 20 countries worldwide. Renesas is a dynamic, multi-cultural technology company where employees learn, mentor, innovate and thrive. Renesas is extending our share in fast-growing data economy-related markets such as infrastructure and data center and strengthening our presence in the industrial / IOT and automotive segments. Our solutions drive products developed by major innovators around the world. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics.