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# lead Digital Design Engineer

- **Company:** Syntiant Corp.
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Analog Electronics, Audio Signal Processing, Digital Architecture, Digital Electronics, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Digital Technology, Electronic Design Automation, MATLAB, Verilog
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/digital-design-engineer-syntiant-7972629

## About the Role

* Advanced Degree in electronic engineering or related field.
 * 8+ years of proven track record in developing digital blocks/systems for high-performance mixed-signal integrated circuits in a consumer or industrial R&D environment.
 * Good understanding of the entire digital design flow and DFT.
 * Experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) implementations
 * Hands-on experience in designing low-power digital circuits.
 * Good understanding of most common concepts and metrics used in analog/mixed signal design (Sampling, Quantization, FFT, SNR, THD, etc.)
 * Experience with sigma delta ADCs or audio signal processing.
 * Understanding of the most common limitations and issues of analog circuits (offset, gain error, distortion, etc.) is an advantage.
 * Knowledge in EDA tools such as Cadence Digital EDA suite (Genus, Tempus, Jasper, Voltus, Modus, Conformal etc.) is an advantage.
 * Solid knowledge of Matlab/Simulink environment.
 * Structured and methodological approach.
 * Strong team player.
 * Good spoken and written communication skills in English.

## Description

* Develop the digital architecture including audio signal path (DSP) and analog-digital interface with the project team.
 * Build complex functional and behavioral models of the systems using Matlab/Simulink, Verilog-AMS, etc.
 * Perform RTL design, synthesis, timing closure, scan pattern generation, power optimization and supervise the RTL-to-GDS flow.
 * Define the digital verification plan.
 * Verify the digital system and blocks in collaboration with the digital verification engineer.
 * Develop low-power audio signal processing architectures.


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