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# Digital ASIC Design Engineer

- **Company:** Draper, Inc.
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Salary:** $62,500.0 - $156,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Digital Technology, Hardware Description Language, Hardware Design, Systems Architecture, SystemVerilog, Trusted Systems, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Application Specific Integrated Circuits
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9242436/digital-asic-design-engineer

## About the Role

* Proficiency in integrated circuit design
 * Understanding of integrated circuits, semiconductors, and general computer architecture
 * Ability to write detailed design specifications
 * Ability to manage small technical teams
 * Excellent verbal and written communication skills
 * Excellent mathematical skills
 * Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
 * Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
 * Ability to prioritize tasks
 * Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals

Education

 * Requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering, or related field. Masters degree preferred., * Requires 5-7 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, or 3-5 years of experience with a master's degree, or 0-2 years of experience with a PhD in ASIC Hardware Engineering or related., * Applicants should possess solid skills in front-end digital systems design with experience in design flows from Cadence or Synopsys.
 * Be fluent in SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL and familiar with LINT, simulation and synthesis.
 * Familiarity with architectures for secure systems design, e.g., cryptographic encoders / decoders or tagged processor architectures is a plus.
 * Demonstrated experience with successful tape-outs at advanced nodes is desired. Experience leading and managing design teams is also desired.

## Description

An ASIC Hardware Engineer specifies, designs, verifies, tests, and documents Application-Specific Integrated Circuits. The engineer develops the architecture, designs circuits and/or HDL, performs simulations, verifies and tests designs., * Contribute to system-level design

 * Optimize hardware designs for performance, power, and cost
 * Evaluate the hardware feasibility of complex algorithms and requirements
 * Independently contribute to complex chip architectures and designs
 * Independently drive solutions to complex problems - develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements
 * Contribute to business development and proposal activities
 * Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers
 * Perform other duties as assigned