Staff Physical Design Engineer - SoC EMIR Engineer (AI Semiconductors)

Location: Haifa District, Israel; other location: Israel

Company

hirify.global develops rack-scale AI infrastructure and semiconductor connectivity solutions integrating CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink with its COSMOS software suite.

What you will do

• Perform IR-drop analysis and signal- and power-electromigration analysis for complex SoCs.
• Collaborate with Physical Design engineers to ensure full power integrity.
• Partner with Package Design engineers on chip-package co-analysis.
• Identify root causes of voltage-drop violations and electromigration risks.
• Execute backend power methodologies for high-performance connectivity silicon and support voltage-drop and reliability targets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of hands-on EMIR or power-integrity analysis experience for high-performance SoCs or high-speed connectivity products.
• Strong proficiency with industry-standard EMIR tools, including Ansys RedHawk/RedHawk-SC or Cadence Voltus.
• Deep understanding of EM/IR challenges in advanced 7nm, 5nm, or 3nm FinFET process nodes.
• Deep understanding of Place & Route flows, power-grid synthesis, RC extraction, and standard-cell architecture.
• Deep understanding of electromigration and the trade-offs between signal EM and power-grid EM.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with thermal-analysis tools and their interaction with electrical performance.
• Experience with sign-off criteria and margins for high-volume production chips.
• Good understanding of timing and P&R.
• Basic understanding of packaging, top-metal layers, MIM capacitor usage, and power distribution.
• Ability to write TCL scripts for STA and Fusion Compiler.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a new strategic R&D center in Israel and take meaningful technical ownership at a site being built from the ground up.
• Work on chips supporting large-scale AI and cloud environments.
• The company encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.