Principal Design Engineer
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Job overview
The Principal Design Engineer develops custom IP and SoC designs for AI components, focusing on microarchitecture and high-performance digital logic. The role owns RTL implementation, drives design quality and timing optimization, and collaborates with verification, physical design, and test teams. It also provides technical leadership through mentorship and teamwork.
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Full job description
Deliver premium-quality silicon designs that push the boundaries of what is possible. Develop cutting-edge custom Intellectual Property (IP) and System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Build solutions capable of complex, high-performance functions with exceptional efficiency. Bring passion, drive, and intellectual curiosity to solving challenging Computer and Electrical Engineering problems. Serve as an integral member of the digital logic design team developing AI components, with a focus on microarchitecture-based functions and features. Own logic design and Register Transfer Level (RTL) implementation for high-performance digital IP. Drive design quality across Lint, Clock Domain Crossing (CDC), Reset Domain Crossing (RDC), power, and related design requirements. Support timing closure and optimization of high-performance digital IP. Collaborate with verification teams to ensure implementations meet architectural and microarchitectural intent. Partner with Physical Design (PD), Design for Test (DFT), and other engineering teams to evaluate and optimize design tradeoffs. Provide technical leadership through mentorship, collaboration, and teamwork. Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience. This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable. 15+ years of experience in logic design delivering complex solutions 10+ years of experience in one or more of the following - floating point arithmetic and datapath design, DMA design, subsystem designs/integration, or custom logic design 5+ years of experience leading logic design teams Multiple successful ASIC tape outs in deep sub-micron technologies Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl Experience debugging designs as well as simulation environment Knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, UVM, and coverage Experience working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) SoCs Working knowledge of writing assertions, coverage and formal verification
How this job compares
Set against the 2,656 open Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$129–194K/yr281 salary ranges
- US median$40–52/hr100 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 384 open Design Engineer jobs in California and 2,656 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,180 postings).
- Education
- 1,811 of the 2,656 open Design Engineer jobs (68%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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