Senior ASIC Design Engineer at Atom Computing
Austin, TX
$140,000–$175,000
Aug 11, 2026
Austin, TX
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a hands-on senior ASIC design role at a quantum computing hardware company, focused on building a digital signal processing block from microarchitecture and RTL through silicon bring-up. The engineer will collaborate closely with physicists, optical engineers, and software teams to translate system requirements into production silicon, while also contributing to current FPGA designs. The role is hybrid in-office (Austin, TX or Boulder, CO) and suits someone with end-to-end ASIC design cycle experience and strong DSP expertise.
Senior level · 5+ years · Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX · Master's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $140,000–$175,000
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What the occupation pays Median $132,317 (middle half $83,374–$165,481). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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The role lists two possible office locations — Austin, TX and Boulder, CO — with a hybrid requirement of at least 3 days per week in-office. The CBSA is set to Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX as the first-named location; Boulder, CO (CBSA 14500) is an equally valid alternative.
The degree requirement is MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field; MS is treated as the minimum hard gate.
'Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA' are listed as interchangeable EDA tool options — Cadence is named as the primary skill with the others captured as alternatives.
The posting sits most naturally in 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) because ASIC/hardware design does not map cleanly to any of the software-developer or systems-analyst SOC codes; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is noted as a runner-up given the RTL/digital design work.
Compensation includes an annual bonus and equity in addition to the stated base salary range, which cannot be represented in the structured fields.
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