Senior Digital Design (AI)

Location: Catania, Italy

Gross annual base salary: €50,600–€69,600.

Company

hirify.global develops industrial and IoT edge-processing solutions, including microcontrollers and high-performance processors for real-time automation and connected applications.

What you will do

• Lead the full digital IC design flow for complex SoCs, from specifications and architecture through RTL coding, synthesis, timing analysis, verification, and power analysis.
• Contribute to design-for-testability implementation and verification, including simulation, formal verification, and hardware emulation.
• Develop digital architectures and methodologies that meet performance, power, and area targets.
• Collaborate with analog, mixed-signal, and software engineers to define interfaces and integrate complete systems.
• Participate in post-silicon validation and debugging to resolve product-quality issues.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead technical discussions, and prepare specifications, test plans, and design reviews.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in digital IC design.
• Expertise in Verilog and SystemVerilog for RTL design and verification.
• Experience with EDA tools for synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, and simulation, including tools such as Design Compiler, Genus, PrimeTime, Formality, VCS, or QuestaSim.
• Strong knowledge of digital design principles, clock-domain crossing, power integrity, and low-power design techniques.
• Experience with Python, Perl, or Tcl scripting, mixed-signal integration, debugging, and collaborative technical leadership.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as part of a newly established Catania engineering team covering analog and digital design, architecture, verification, DfT, and physical design.
• Contribute to MCU products for intelligent AI-at-the-Edge applications.
• Compensation follows the applicable Metalmeccanica Industria National Collective Labour Agreement.
• The package may include annual incentives, equity, and additional benefits.
• NXP applies fair, consistent, and transparent remuneration practices.