Digital ASIC Design Engineer (ASIC)

Location: Onsite in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Base salary: $62,500–$156,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is an independent nonprofit research and development company delivering engineering solutions for national challenges across defense, space exploration, and biomedical engineering.

What you will do

• Specify, design, verify, test, and document application-specific integrated circuits.
• Contribute to system-level designs and complex chip architectures.
• Optimize hardware for performance, power consumption, and cost.
• Evaluate the feasibility of complex algorithms and requirements in hardware.
• Develop requirements and solutions when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete.
• Document and teach design best practices while contributing to proposals and business development.

Requirements

• Current active US Secret clearance is required; selected applicants must obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
• 5–7 years of ASIC hardware engineering experience with a bachelor’s degree, 3–5 years with a master’s degree, or 0–2 years with a PhD.
• Front-end digital systems design experience with Cadence or Synopsys design flows.
• Fluency in SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL, with familiarity in linting, simulation, and synthesis.
• Strong integrated-circuit design, mathematical, analytical, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with secure-system architectures, such as cryptographic encoders and decoders or tagged processor architectures.
• Successful tape-outs at advanced nodes.
• Experience leading and managing design teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative multidisciplinary environment supporting cross-functional innovation.
• Programs supporting work-life balance and workplace flexibility.
• Employee clubs, including photography and yoga.
• Health and finance workshops, off-site social events, and discounts for local museums and cultural activities.