ASIC Design Engineer (Physical Design)

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; onsite at 4380 Ziegler Road

Annual base salary: USD 61,900–99,000

Company

hirify.global develops custom CMOS ASICs for AI, cellular, networking, computing, and storage products.

What you will do

• Implement large-scale, multi-hundred-million-gate ASICs through physical design.
• Support floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, and DRC/LVS physical verification.
• Collaborate on block-level integration, timing analysis, design signoff, and technical design reviews.
• Use commercial and in-house EDA tools for implementation and verification.
• Improve design flows, automation, and deep sub-micron methodologies.
• Contribute to power planning, IR/EM checks, post-route optimization, and the ASIC cycle from RTL to GDSII and silicon bring-up.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Solid understanding of VLSI design, CMOS logic, and digital circuit fundamentals.
• Familiarity with ASIC physical design, including placement, routing, and timing.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to learn new tools and flows quickly.
• Proficiency in UNIX/Linux environments and working knowledge of TCL.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities; ability to work with cross-functional and global teams.
• Engineering judgment, ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and motivation to learn in a fast-paced R&D environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Python or Perl.
• Exposure to Cadence Innovus, Synopsys ICC2, or PrimeTime.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a cross-functional custom silicon design team on advanced 3 nm and smaller process nodes operating above 1 GHz.
• Collaborate closely with senior engineers across multiple disciplines and support customer and internal stakeholder discussions.
• Eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, new-hire equity grant, and annual equity awards, subject to plan documents and award agreements.
• Benefits include medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k) with company matching, ESPP, EAP, paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation, and applicable family and other leave.

Hiring process

• First-time users must create a candidate login account before applying; existing candidates must sign in before applying.
• Applicants outside the USA should provide a home address for future correspondence.