Principal Engineer, Power Integrity

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Base pay: $150,680–$225,700 per year

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions for enterprise, cloud and AI, carrier, wired and wireless communications, and critical infrastructure markets.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end power integrity analysis across SoC packages, boards, systems, switches, and optical platforms.
• Develop PDN target impedance specifications, decoupling capacitor strategies, power plane designs, and package and PCB models.
• Analyze VRM behavior, loop stability, transient and load-step response, voltage droop, and power delivery paths for optics integration.
• Develop PI methodologies, rules, and workflows, and identify and mitigate power integrity risks across the platform stack.
• Perform VNA and TDR laboratory measurements to correlate simulations with real-world performance.
• Partner with packaging, board layout, circuit design, architecture, and customer engineering teams; mentor junior engineers and support customer design reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 10–15 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and/or PhD with 5–10 years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of electromagnetics, transmission lines, microwave theory, PDN analysis, and high-speed differential and single-ended signals.
• Experience with power plane design and analysis using PowerSI, SIwave, or Cadence Sigrity.
• Experience with 2D and 3D EM simulation tools such as Ansys HFSS, HSPICE, ADS, or COMSOL.
• Hands-on experience with VNA, TDR, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, EM field solvers, and time- and frequency-domain analysis.
• Ability to automate power integrity and packaging activities using Python, with strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a highly visible, cross-functional technical environment supporting complex platform programs.
• Eligibility for bonus and equity plans, including a new-hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers.
• Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year lookback.
• Family support programs, mental and physical health resources, and recognition and service awards.
• Access to export-controlled technology may require eligibility under U.S. export control laws and an export license review.

Hiring process

• Interviews evaluate individual experience, technical reasoning, and communication skills.
• AI tools, transcription applications, automated note-taking bots, and real-time answer generators are not permitted during interviews.