Quantum CryoCMOS Device Modeling Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Offsite, United States; listed location: Malta, New York

Salary: $98,000–$176,000 per year; exact salary depends on qualifications, experience, and location.

Company

hirify.global is a full-service semiconductor foundry providing design, development, and fabrication services with a global manufacturing footprint.

What you will do

• Develop and calibrate physics-based compact models for CMOS and related transistors across room-temperature and cryogenic operating regimes, including nominal, corner, and statistical behavior.
• Develop, calibrate, and validate simulation-ready models for superconducting and photonic elements using measured data and relevant physical mechanisms.
• Plan parameter-extraction and model-validation workflows using electrical characterization data from device test structures and test chips.
• Correlate models with measured data, semiconductor, superconducting, and photonic physics, and TCAD results; identify limitations and drive corrective actions.
• Integrate and qualify model files in PDK and EDA simulation environments through regression testing, convergence checks, documentation, and release preparation.
• Collaborate with device engineering, technology development, characterization, PDK, EDA, and circuit-design teams and communicate assumptions, validation results, and usage guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Physics, Applied Physics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience applying semiconductor device physics to device modeling, transistor compact-model development, parameter extraction, device characterization, or closely related work.
• Strong semiconductor device-physics background and understanding of transistor compact modeling and MOSFET behavior, including short-channel effects, leakage, capacitance, variability, and temperature dependence.
• Ability to develop or apply models for superconducting and photonic elements, including physical-effect selection, parameterization, validation, and deployment in circuit- or system-level simulations.
• Hands-on compact-model parameter extraction and model validation using measured device data.
• Experience with SPICE-class simulation and commercial EDA environments such as Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre, Synopsys PrimeSim/HSPICE, or Siemens EDA tools.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent scripting/programming tools in a Linux/Unix environment.
• Ability to interpret electrical characterization data and communicate technical conclusions to device, modeling, PDK, and design stakeholders.
• Travel of up to 10% and fluency in written and verbal English.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant engineering, microelectronics, physics, or applied-physics field.
• Advanced experience with BSIM4, BSIM-CMG, PSP, or related compact-model families.
• Experience with cryogenic electronics or semiconductor behavior from approximately 300 K to 4 K, including freeze-out, threshold-voltage shifts, mobility changes, self-heating, noise, and convergence challenges.
• Experience with Keysight IC-CAP, Synopsys Mystic, or automated parameter-extraction frameworks; TCAD correlation; statistical modeling; variability analysis; or Monte Carlo methods.
• Experience supporting PDK releases, model QA, regression testing, version control, and customer-facing documentation.
• Experience modeling superconducting elements, photonic devices, cryoCMOS circuits, quantum control/readout electronics, or RF/analog design requirements.
• Project management, innovation, execution, communication, planning, organization, and ability to navigate ambiguity.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment at a global semiconductor foundry.
• Work is performed offsite, with travel of up to 10%.
• Employment is subject to applicable pre-employment conditions, laws, and regulations.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the employment process upon request.
• hirify.global states its commitment to equal opportunity and a diverse workplace.