Associate Staff CAD Engineer - Physical Verification

Location: Austin, Texas, United States

Annual base pay: $124,600–$231,400 USD

Company

hirify.global develops low-power wireless connectivity and highly integrated SoCs for smart home, industrial IoT, and smart city applications.

What you will do

• Develop physical verification rule decks, including DRC, LVS, antenna, density, dummy fill, extraction, and PERC.
• Drive impact analysis meetings and collaborate with CAD, ESD, design, layout, and foundry teams to collect specifications and release decks.
• Support design and layout teams in debugging and resolving physical verification issues throughout the development cycle.
• Conduct code reviews and create custom QA test cases to validate rule-deck quality.
• Develop and maintain physical verification flows and methodologies to improve quality, performance, and user debugging.
• Evaluate new tools and features, benchmark them, and work with vendors to track and resolve software bugs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of related professional experience and a bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering.
• Strong expertise developing and supporting DRC, antenna, density, and dummy fill rule decks using Calibre SVRF or similar languages.
• Experience with physical verification tools such as Calibre RVE, Calibre DRV, and Virtuoso Layout Editor.
• Proficiency in Perl, Python, and shell scripting for custom scripts and automation.
• Experience driving physical verification flows from specification through release, collaborating with design and layout engineers, and leading deck impact analysis.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across physical verification decks, flows, and methodologies.

Nice to have

• Experience coding LVS, extraction, and PERC rule decks.
• Experience with AI-powered tools and technologies for productivity, analysis, and decision-making.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans, including PPO and HSA options.
• 401(k) with match, Roth option, equity rewards, and flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible PTO, three paid volunteer days annually, and charitable contribution matching.
• Tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, backup childcare, commuter benefits, legal benefits, and pet insurance.
• Downtown parking, an onsite gym, wellness offerings, and free snacks.