Head - SoC Physical Design Manager

Location: Sophia-Antipolis (Valbonne), France; other location: Gratkorn

Company

hirify.global develops products enabling trusted physical AI and advanced semiconductor solutions.

What you will do

• Lead, develop, and grow the Physical Design, STA, and signoff organization.
• Own physical design strategy and execution for complex IC and mixed-signal SoC developments from physical architecture and floorplanning through tape-out.
• Direct floorplanning, partitioning, power planning, placement, clock-tree implementation, routing, physical optimization, timing closure, and signoff.
• Lead power-management implementation, power integrity, reliability, mixed-signal physical integration, and physical verification.
• Partner with architecture, RTL, front-end, analog, packaging, EDA, technology, library, and IP teams to influence design decisions and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Drive cross-NXP best practices, methodology standardization, automation, flow reuse, and adoption of improved implementation technologies.

Requirements

• Significant experience in advanced IC/SoC Physical Design, including multiple successful tape-outs and ramp of high-volume products.
• Deep expertise in Place & Route, STA, timing closure, packaging, physical signoff, IR-drop, electromigration, signal integrity, power integrity, and reliability.
• Experience with low-power designs involving multiple voltage domains, power gating, level shifting, isolation, and always-on domains.
• Strong understanding of interactions between architecture, RTL, synthesis, DFT, Physical Design, analog design, packaging, and silicon validation.
• Experience improving and industrializing EDA methodologies, automation, and design flows.
• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams, mentoring technical experts, and building future technical and organizational leaders.
• Experience collaborating across multiple organizations, sites, or business groups and influencing decisions beyond the direct reporting organization.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex engineering issues into clear technical and program decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience in the Physical Design of secure products.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time leadership role with responsibility for building a strong Physical Design organization.
• Culture focused on technical excellence, collaboration, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to develop engineering talent and establish common methodologies and best practices across NXP.
• Cross-organizational collaboration with Physical Design teams and technical communities across NXP.