Digital Design Flow Architect (AI)

Location: Austin (Oakhill, Office), United States

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor technologies and digital design solutions.

What you will do

• Architect modular end-to-end RTL-to-GDS flows covering synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, timing and power closure, static verification, signoff, and GDS delivery.
• Enable agentic execution, AI-assisted debugging, design-space exploration, and automated analysis loops for EDA workflows.
• Establish reusable flow practices with standard recipes, configuration baselines, metrics, dashboards, audit trails, regression checks, and release management.
• Deploy flows for new process technologies with design, CAD/methodology, foundry, and EDA vendor teams.
• Improve productivity, turnaround time, quality of results, and PPA through automation and methodology tuning.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; an M.S. or Ph.D. is preferred.
• Director-level technical leadership experience in digital design, CAD/methodology, EDA implementation, or flow architecture.
• Deep hands-on experience with RTL-to-GDS implementation, static design and timing analysis, formal/static verification, signoff, ECO, and PPA closure.
• Experience with synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, clock-tree synthesis, power optimization, congestion analysis, and advanced-node implementation.
• Hands-on experience developing agentic AI workflows and practical MCP integrations, including tool invocation, result interpretation, secure access, JSON-RPC-style communication, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Strong scripting and automation skills with Tcl, Python, Perl, shell, or equivalent technologies, plus experience with Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDA, or comparable platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-enabled EDA, agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent workflows, and workflow state management.
• Experience building MCP-enabled connectors or tool adapters for EDA tools, schedulers, dashboards, repositories, databases, or compute environments.
• Experience delivering production-quality flows with observability, auditability, permission control, evaluation harnesses, regression validation, documentation, and release management.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with design, CAD/methodology, foundry, and EDA vendor teams.
• Opportunity to lead flow transformation across functional domains and technology nodes.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.