Senior Staff CAD Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Salary: $129,100–$191,030 per annum

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions that support enterprise, cloud, AI, and carrier data infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain advanced place-and-route flows for multiple business units.
• Deploy and support CAD flows across the organization.
• Integrate flows into the broader CAD platform.
• Develop innovative solutions for increasingly complex semiconductor design challenges.
• Track process and tool evolution and collaborate with EDA vendors to optimize tool usage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 5–10 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree/PhD with 3–5 years of experience; equivalent professional experience may substitute for a degree.
• At least 2 years of recent experience with Cadence Innovus.
• Experience with 7nm-or-below advanced-node tapeouts and familiarity with FinFET, dual patterning, and ultra-low-voltage challenges.
• Strong knowledge of timing closure, floorplanning, routability, power-grid design, clock synthesis, signal integrity, EM/IR, DRC rules, power intent, and multiple power domains.
• Proficiency in Tcl scripting for flow development, with strong analysis, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Applicants must be eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology; an export license review may be required before employment.

Nice to have

• Experience with gate-to-gate equivalence checking, parasitic extraction, STA, physical verification, early rail analysis, implementation exploration, or EDA tool benchmarking.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year look-back.
• Family support programs for work-life needs.
• Mental and physical health resources.
• Recognition and service awards.

Hiring process

• Interviews assess individual experience, thought process, and communication skills.
• AI tools, transcription apps, answer generators, and automated note-taking tools are prohibited during interviews.