Intern, Digital Design - Fall 2026

About pSemi

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.

About the Role

This position is for a design verification/validation intern for Analog Mixed-Signal and Digital products. The intern will assist in developing, verifying, characterizing, validating, and supporting circuit IP blocks for product development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and simulate self-checking, functional design verification, and validation test benches
• Development of FPGA systems using logic design and RTL coding
• Lab Debug of FPGA prototypes using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes and signal generators
• Modify C code controlling automated test equipment

Requirements

• Ability to develop RTL and run Verilog simulations
• Familiarity with FPGA development tools and lab debug of FPGA design projects
• Familiarity with sequential and combinational logic, finite state machines, data path components such as adders, comparators, subtractors, multipliers, shifters, counters, timers
• Familiarity with timing, metastability, setup/hold constraints
• Familiarity with memory components, storage elements
• Familiarity with software techniques, particularly programming in Python
• Familiarity with digital logic design and synthesis
• Understanding of CMOS silicon circuits
• Familiarity with operating lab equipment, including DIO, SMUs, and oscilloscopes

Preferred Qualifications

• Good communication skills
• Experience with serial interface protocols such as SPI or I2C
• Experience with Cadence CAD tools, Simvision/Xcelium simulator, Genus synthesis, Innovus Auto Place, and Route
• Understanding of test vectors and digital test concepts
• Experience in ASIC front-end implementation tool flows and silicon bring-up

Qualifications

Full-time enrollment in an accredited Bachelor’s degree program in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (must be completing 3+ year) or MSEE candidate.

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.

Pay

USD 32.20 - 58.32 per hour