Senior Custom ASIC Engineering Lead (ASIC)

Location: San Jose, California, USA

Annual base salary: USD 143,800–230,000

Company

hirify.global develops infrastructure chips that enable customers to produce custom ASICs for semiconductor industry applications, including AI, HPC, networking, and storage.

What you will do

• Manage external customer ASIC programs from RFQs through technology and IP collateral, design, testing, packaging, fabrication, bring-up, and production.
• Advise customer teams on EDA tools, design flows, methodologies, and best practices.
• Assess design-quality and schedule risks and coordinate mitigation actions with cross-functional teams.
• Execute physical design flows to verify that customer tape-in netlists meet tape-out quality standards.
• Coordinate technical discussions with hirify.global experts and collaborate with marketing, sales, legal, and regulatory compliance teams.
• Share technical findings and support other engineering teams when needed.

Requirements

• Multiple tape-outs in advanced technology nodes.
• 12+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, or 10+ years with a master's degree.
• Experience analyzing PPA tradeoffs across library components and architectures.
• Knowledge of low-power design and power management.
• Hands-on experience with physical design, STA, EDA tools, logic simulation, testing, packaging, and related design flows.
• Programming experience with TCL, shell, and scripting languages.

Nice to have

• Exposure to SERDES communication protocols.
• Experience with logic design, chip architecture, microarchitecture, Verilog RTL, front-end logic design verification, DRC, or logic synthesis.
• Knowledge of DFT methods, including scan, memory BIST, and repair.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with internal and external cross-functional engineering teams.
• Discretionary annual bonus and competitive new-hire and annual equity awards.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) participation with company matching and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Paid holidays, sick leave, vacation time, and applicable family and other leaves of absence.