Intern, Digital Design - Summer 2025

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor's 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission-to enhance Murata's world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi's product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi's team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Intern, Digital Design

Location:

Austin, TX or San Diego, CA

Job Summary

Be part of pSemi's Digital Design team developing digital IP for mixed signal and RF ICs. Gain practical work experience in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Hands-on learning opportunities include (but not limited to) digital design, design automation, verification, production test vector generation, digital characterization, bench validation and documentation.

We are looking for future engineers with a passion for teamwork, technical excellence, and systematic process driven execution.

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Verilog/SV RTL Design: Create or modify existing designs to meet specifications
• Design Verification: Plan and implement simulation test for digital IP blocks
• Test Vector Generation: Convert simulation vectors to test vectors for silicon validation and production test
• Design validation: Perform lab measurements on existing chips to provide data to guide future developments
• Script Maintenance and development for design processes and automation
• Building/modifying test benches, running, and analyzing simulations to cover a test plan

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• Project work in team environment
• Familiarity with scripting language such as Python
• Coursework in digital design (RTL), design debug and digital verification (Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL)
• Coursework in logic design, including combinational logic, state machines, and digital arithmetic
• Coursework in circuit design/analysis, including CMOS transistor models
• Familiarity with serial protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART

Preferred Qualifications

• Course work in device physics (transistor level)
• Academic projects with Digital Design simulation, synthesis, and Automated Place and Route
• Simulation, debug, and verification of gate level simulations
• Understanding of behavioral modelling of analog in digital simulations
• DSP/Communications design experience using Matlab

Education Requirements

• Enrolled in BSEE (junior or above); Enrolled in MSEE or PHD program (preferred)

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

USD 32.20 - 58.32 per hour

Thank you for your interest in our temporary position. Please be advised that the selected candidate will be employed and receive all wages directly from a third-party staffing agency selected by pSemi.

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including "protected veterans" under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Note: The Peregrine Semiconductor name, Peregrine Semiconductor logoand UltraCMOS are registered trademarks and the pSemi name, pSemi logo, HaRP andDuNE are trademarks of pSemi Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. pSemi products are protected under one or more of the following U.S. Patents: http://patents.psemi.com