AI-Enabled PDK Development Engineer (AI)

Location: Malta, New York, United States

Salary: $69,000.00–$120,000.00 per year

Company

hirify.global is a full-service semiconductor foundry providing design, development, and fabrication services with manufacturing operations across three continents.

What you will do

• Develop, test, maintain, and support PDK code and rule content for LVS, DRC, PEX, OPC, and Design Manual requirements.
• Apply AI-guided methods to generate, translate, review, debug, optimize, and regression-test rule-deck code under expert review and release controls.
• Build automated pipelines that convert approved process and design requirements into structured rules, test cases, documentation, and quality evidence.
• Maintain representative positive and negative test layouts, golden reference results, coverage metrics, and regression suites.
• Use machine learning, natural-language processing, code generation, and data analytics to identify rule gaps, inconsistencies, failure modes, and development opportunities.
• Collaborate with process, device, modeling, mask, lithography, design-enablement, PDK, EDA, and circuit-design teams to deliver customer-usable design collateral.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in AI, machine learning, software engineering, data science, automation, or a closely related field; approximately 2+ years for Level 5 or 3–5+ years for Level 6 are preferred, with final leveling aligned to GF guidelines. Relevant research, internships, co-ops, and substantial projects may be considered.
• Strong Python and software-engineering skills, including maintainable code, automated testing, debugging, version control, documentation, and workflow integration.
• Practical experience with AI/ML methods, large language models, code generation, natural-language processing, retrieval or knowledge grounding, optimization, or data analytics applied to engineering or software workflows.
• Ability to learn a highly technical domain, work with subject-matter experts, and translate domain requirements into accurate, maintainable, and testable software.
• Proficiency in at least one additional programming language or development environment such as Tcl, Perl, C/C++, or Java, plus Linux/Unix experience.
• Ability to validate AI-generated outputs through deterministic checks, regression testing, expert review, version control, and documented acceptance criteria.
• Experience designing automated tests, regression suites, acceptance criteria, and structured technical documentation.
• Fluent written and verbal English; willingness to travel up to 10%.

Nice to have

• Semiconductor, foundry, or PDK experience, including device physics, process layers, connectivity, geometry rules, parasitic effects, layout verification, and PDK release practices.
• EDA rule-deck or physical-verification experience with tools such as Siemens Calibre, Synopsys IC Validator/StarRC, Cadence Pegasus/PVS/Quantus, or equivalent.
• Experience with AI-assisted coding agents, retrieval-augmented generation, rule or code translation, automated test generation, static analysis, or engineering knowledge systems.
• Experience with Design Manual development, machine-readable design rules, requirements traceability, PCells, technology files, reliability rules, density/fill, antenna checking, electromagnetic extraction, or advanced-package and 3DIC verification.
• Experience with cryogenic, quantum, photonic, superconducting, advanced-packaging, or heterogeneous-integration design enablement.
• Familiarity with model governance, data provenance, secure proprietary-data use, reproducibility, CI/CD, containers, issue tracking, and automated PDK QA dashboards.
• Strong project execution, communication, planning, organizational, and ambiguity-navigation skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment at a semiconductor foundry with a global manufacturing footprint.
• Work is performed at the Malta, New York location.
• Activities must follow Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
• Employment is subject to applicable pre-employment conditions, laws, and regulations.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the employment process upon request.