Senior Staff Digital Design Engineer (Wireless SoC)

Job Title:  Senior Staff Digital Design Engineer

Location:  San Diego or San Jose CA

Employment Type:  Direct/Full-time

Industry:  Semiconductor

Compensation:  170k-200k

Schedule:  M-F

About the Opportunity:

As a Sr. Staff/Staff Digital Design Engineer, you will be working with a team of design engineers to develop novel SoC products for connectivity and communication. You will also be a key contributor to product definition and resulting detailed device performance and functional requirements specifications. In addition to delivering high quality digital solutions, the team supports other disciplines with work product such as Verilog stimulus files, test benches for device bring up/characterization, test vectors for product manufacturing.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

•Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability

•Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries

•People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work

•Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance—where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

What You'll Do:

• Contribute to SoC architecture development for high-performance low-power IoT devices
• Employ skills in SystemVerilog, Python, Tcl, UPF to bring designs from concept through architecture to silicon and, finally, high-volume production
• Work cross-functionally with Systems/RF/software/firmware/verification/validation/operations teams
• Support schedule and resource planning to deliver products to market on time
• Help to define digital/system design and implementation methodologies and test strategies and flows

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Theoretical and practical knowledge of SoC architectures employing embedded processors
• Familiarity with common bus architectures like AXI/AHB/APB/OBI
• Deep RTL design knowledge (SystemVerilog)
• Experience with multi-clock and multi-power domain systems and strategies to control and minimize power consumption
• Understanding of timing constraints, static timing analysis and timing closure
• Experience with Arm TrustZone, device lifecycle states, Secure Boot, and PSA Certified Level 2+ security.
• MS/PhD EE/CS preferred 

What Sets You Apart:

• You have an engineering mindset, and you believe that communication is key to growing a team stronger
• Able to work effectively with incomplete or changing requirements

Additional Information:

After you , you may receive a call or message from our AI Talent Scout about this role or other opportunities that match your skills and preferences. AI agent role is to help speed up your hiring process by answering questions, confirming basic information, and identifying whether there's a mutual fit.

The call or chat may be recorded so that our recruiting team can review it - they make all final hiring decisions, while AI agent simply helps move you forward faster. The best part? They are available 24/7, so you can connect whenever it's convenient for you.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.