Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (EDA/VLSI)

TL;DR

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (EDA/VLSI): Architecting and developing a Python-based distributed infrastructure to orchestrate high-performance C++ solvers for electromigration and IR drop analysis, with an accent on scalable data processing, efficient I/O, and fault-tolerant job orchestration. Focus on designing elegant abstractions for heterogeneous workloads and ensuring observability and performance under massive circuit designs.

Location: Onsite in San Jose, California, USA

Salary: $154,000–$286,000 (annual, California)

Company

hirify.global is a product company specializing in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for semiconductor design.

What you will do

• Architect and develop core distributed infrastructure for a Python-based platform integrating C++ solvers.
• Design efficient ingestion pipelines and high-performance I/O for multi-TB circuit databases.
• Implement serialization/deserialization layers between Python and C++ components.
• Create fault-tolerant job orchestration and workflow for long-running simulations.
• Manage resources and load balancing across compute clusters with monitoring and observability.
• Develop scalable visualization and interactive data exploration for multi-dimensional TB-scale simulation results.

Requirements

• 5+ years building production distributed systems with Python.
• Deep experience with Dask Distributed or similar frameworks (Spark, Ray, Celery).
• Strong grasp of distributed computing patterns, data locality, and fault tolerance.
• Expertise in high-performance I/O (HDF5, Parquet, Arrow, columnar formats) and data partitioning.
• Experience with Python/C++ interop (pybind11, Cython, ctypes).
• Experience with large-scale scientific/engineering visualization systems.

Nice to have

• Background in EDA, VLSI, semiconductor design, or computational engineering.
• HPC experience with job schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF).
• GPU acceleration knowledge.
• Familiarity with Go, Plotly, Bokeh, Holoviews, Datashader.
• Open-source distributed computing contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on greenfield distributed infrastructure with modern tools.
• Opportunity to build a scalable foundation for advanced chip design analysis.
• Benefits include paid vacation, paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, and medical/dental/vision options.
• Collaborate with experts in numerical methods and circuit analysis algorithms.