Senior Principal Engineer - Switch Architecture (ASIC)

Location: Bangalore, India; on-site collaboration required

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions for enterprise, cloud, AI, carrier, optical interconnect, and custom silicon infrastructure.

What you will do

• Define product architectures, features, pipelines, and protocols for next-generation data center switch ASICs.
• Develop behavioral and performance models to validate architectural decisions and scalability.
• Drive switch architecture from high-level concepts through micro-architecture engagement, silicon bring-up, and production.
• Analyze latency, throughput, memory architecture, power, area, and QoS tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with ASIC design, software, SerDes, firmware, validation, systems engineering, product, and customer teams.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, customer and standards-body discussions, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s/PhD with 10–12+ years of semiconductor architecture or ASIC development experience.
• Strong experience designing or architecting complex ASICs, ideally for networking or switching.
• Expertise in behavioral and performance modeling, architectural validation, and system-level tradeoff analysis.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
• Ability to collaborate across geographies and multidisciplinary engineering teams and communicate complex architectural concepts clearly.
• Eligibility to access export-controlled technology and software is required; applicants may be subject to an export license review.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-die or chiplet architectures, die-to-die interfaces, or advanced packaging.
• Familiarity with switch pipelines, buffer management, traffic engineering, and programmable datapaths.
• Experience working with customers or standards bodies.
• Published papers, patents, or prior leadership experience in architecture teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative on-site engineering culture with daily in-person collaboration.
• Opportunity to shape switch silicon deployed in hyperscale cloud and AI data centers.
• Cross-domain work spanning hardware, software, systems, and customer engineering.
• Bonus and equity plan eligibility, including a new-hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers.
• Competitive compensation and benefits in a stable global semiconductor organization.

Hiring process

• Interviews assess individual experience, technical reasoning, and communication skills in real time.
• Use of AI tools, transcription apps, automated answer generators, or note-taking bots during interviews is prohibited and may result in disqualification.