Physical Design Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Physical Design Engineer (AI): Designing and optimizing custom silicon for advanced AI systems with an accent on PPA-optimized datapath and interconnect solutions. Focus on developing physical design strategies, tools, flows, and methodologies to enhance silicon performance and cost efficiency.

Location: San Francisco

Salary: $310,000 – $460,000 + Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Develop, build and own tools, flows and methodologies for physical implementation.
• Own physical implementation of floorplan blocks from floorplanning to final signoff.
• Collaborate with RTL designers to drive optimal block implementation solutions.
• Analyze and optimize design for timing, power, and area trade-offs, working in collaboration with EDA vendors and ASIC partners.

Requirements

• BS with 4+ or MS with 2+ years or PhD with 0-1 year of relevant industry experience in physical design and methodology development.
• Demonstrated success in taping out complex silicon designs.
• Hands-on experience with block physical implementation and PPA convergence.
• Strong coding experience with python, bazel, TCL.
• Strong experience building physical design tools, flows and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of microarchitecture, RTL design, physical design, circuit design, physical verification and timing closure.
• Deep familiarity with industry-standard tools and flows for physical synthesis, PNR, LEC and power estimation.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or HPC-focused chips.
• Experience with optimizing PPA for high performance compute cores.
• Hands-on experience with top-level design methodologies.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.
• We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.