Senior Staff Digital Design Engineer (RAIN RFID)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $158,700–$238,100 USD per year, plus potential merit increases, annual bonuses, and stock awards.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered matching and application-review platform connecting candidates with hiring companies.

What you will do

• Lead digital design for RAIN RFID reader ICs from architecture and micro-architecture through RTL, tapeout, and post-silicon validation.
• Develop executable models and RTL for complex digital and mixed-signal subsystems.
• Define mixed-signal architectures with chip architects and RF/analog engineers, including control loops, calibration engines, and analog IP interfaces.
• Collaborate with verification and physical design teams on functionality, timing closure, signal integrity, and production-ready silicon.
• Define DFT strategies including scan insertion, BIST, boundary scan, MBIST, and ATPG.
• Improve ASIC/SoC design flows and methodologies while mentoring engineers and supporting silicon bring-up and debugging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or a related technical field with 12+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent master’s or PhD pathway.
• 12+ years of hands-on RTL design experience and at least 2–3 complete tapeout cycles, preferably with mixed-signal or RF-integrated ICs.
• Strong expertise in digital logic design, micro-architecture, synthesis, timing closure, CDC analysis, clock gating, low-power methodologies, and static timing analysis.
• Advanced Verilog and SystemVerilog skills, plus experience with UVM, functional coverage, assertion-based verification, and DFT methodologies.
• Scripting experience with Python, Perl, UNIX shell, or similar automation tools.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across digital, analog, RF, physical design, CAD/EDA, and systems engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-eligible work arrangement for U.S.-based employees.
• Base salary with eligibility for merit increases, annual bonuses, and stock awards.
• 401(k) plan with company matching and comprehensive healthcare benefits for U.S.-based employees.
• Open PTO policy supporting work-life balance.
• Opportunities to influence engineering methodologies, mentor engineers, and contribute to advanced semiconductor technology.
• Innovation-focused, collaborative, inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity commitments and reasonable accommodations.

Hiring process

• hirify.global uses an AI-powered matching process to evaluate applications against the role’s core requirements.
• Shortlisted candidates are shared with the hiring company, whose internal team manages interviews, assessments, and subsequent steps.