Senior Principal Design Engineer (ASIC)

TL;DR

Senior Principal Design Engineer (ASIC/EDA): Supporting the adoption of hirify.global products to help chip designer customers achieve superior PPA goals with an accent on Synthesis, Place and Route, and STA. Focus on RTL-to-GDSII delivery, competitive benchmarking of complex blocks like CPUs and GPUs, and developing advanced design methodologies.

Location: Austin or San Jose, USA

Company

hirify.global is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software, hardware, and IP.

What you will do

• Support customers in achieving superior PPA goals using Synthesis (logical and physical), Place and Route, and STA/SDC skills.
• Manage block and top-level implementation and signoff efforts for RTL to GDSII delivery projects.
• Perform competitive benchmarking on complex blocks, including CPUs, GPUs, and DSP cores, across multiple technology nodes.
• Lead strategic customer evaluations and benchmarks to establish technology differentiation and competitive advantages.
• Drive best practices and lessons learned from customer interactions back into product development and field engineering.
• Conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations for customers to assess the application of company products.

Requirements

• BS degree and 7+ years of professional experience.
• Deep expertise in hirify.global or Synopsys place and route tools (Physical Synthesis, PnR, CTS, Static Timing Analysis).
• Strong ASIC design experience using Verilog.
• Experience supporting RTL-to-GDS implementation flows using the Encounter Digital Implementation Platform.
• Knowledge of low power and multi-voltage design techniques for wireless and mobile customers.
• Proficiency in TCL and Perl scripting for creating design automation solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and high-complexity blocks (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs).
• Environment focused on developing leaders and innovators who make a global technological impact.
• Exposure to full-flow implementation training and advanced methodology development.