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Senior Standard Cell Library Engineer

Intel

Location

Santa Clara, CA, Folsom, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$122,440 - $232,190 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202694.2% approval-88% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

Intel's Foundry Standard Cell team is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Design Engineer to design leading-edge experiments for developing, characterizing, and testing standard cells. This role is critical in enabling customers by understanding their needs and building effective solutions. The engineer will implement design solutions that meet power, performance, area, manufacturability, and cost requirements. The position involves collaboration with various teams to ensure compliance with design and manufacturing standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Nanoscience, Microelectronics, Computer Engineering, or a STEM related field.
  • 2+ years' experience in standard cell layout, abstract modeling, characterization, or ASIC design and verification.
  • Experience using tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys Custom Compiler, and others listed in the job description.

Responsibilities

  • Define, implement, characterize, and validate design solutions to meet design requirements.
  • Implement all aspects of the physical design flow including circuit layout, extraction, and optimization.
  • Collaborate closely with standard cell collateral to understand design requirements.
  • Review and validate work to ensure compliance with design, manufacturing, and quality requirements.
  • Run end-to-end experiments and flows to generate and release custom standard cell collateral.

Benefits

  • Intel offers a comprehensive benefits package including competitive pay, stock programs, healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, parental leave, and programs supporting employee wellbeing and professional development.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Intel Corp

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

74

FY2026

Approval rate

94.2%

FY2026

LCA certified

2,201

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.1%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-88%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-54%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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