ESD Design Expert (Semiconductors)

Location: Toulouse, France

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions for automotive and industrial applications.

What you will do

• Define ESD protection strategies, architectures, and technology roadmaps for new product families.
• Lead the design, optimization, and validation of on-chip ESD protection for analog, mixed-signal, high-voltage, and automotive integrated circuits.
• Establish ESD design methodologies, rules, best practices, and reusable design libraries.
• Lead ESD sign-off reviews, investigations, characterization campaigns, failure analysis, and root-cause assessments.
• Collaborate with technology development, product lines, validation, package engineering, system architects, and EMC experts.
• Develop simulation, modeling, automation, and AI-assisted methodologies while mentoring engineers and driving technical innovation.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Physics, or a related field.
• 10–20 years of experience in ESD protection design or analog/mixed-signal IC design.
• Deep expertise in semiconductor device physics and analog integrated circuit design.
• Experience with ESD and robustness standards including HBM, CDM, IEC 61000-4-2, ISO 10605, TLP, VF-TLP, latch-up, and system-level ESD requirements.
• Experience with EDA simulation tools, device modeling, silicon debug, and chip-package-system interactions.
• Experience leading technical projects and influencing cross-functional engineering teams.

Nice to have

• EMC-aware analog design experience.
• Experience with CMOS, BCD, SOI, FinFET, or high-voltage processes.
• Automotive functional safety and high-reliability semiconductor experience.
• Patents, technical publications, conference presentations, or industry contributions.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted circuit design, automation, data analytics, or machine learning for semiconductor development.

Culture & Benefits

• Technical leadership role within the ACC CTO organization.
• Opportunity to influence ESD robustness strategy, semiconductor technologies, and product methodologies across the company.
• Collaboration across global and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Focus on innovation, continuous improvement, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.