Silicon Architect (Semiconductor)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California; compensation is based on US location tiers.

Salary: $180,200–$212,000 for Region 2 (San Diego) or $198,050–$233,000 for Region 1 (San Francisco), plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops wearable health products, including the Oura Ring and connected app, which provide insights into readiness, activity, and sleep.

What you will do

• Define custom-silicon architectures and roadmaps for future wearable platforms.
• Gather requirements from product, hardware, firmware, software, algorithms, sensing, and operations teams and convert them into measurable silicon specifications.
• Partner with semiconductor vendors and technology providers to evaluate architecture options and drive execution.
• Lead technical trade-offs across compute, memory, connectivity, security, power, packaging, testing, and manufacturing.
• Define validation, characterization, bring-up, qualification, and production-readiness plans.
• Track semiconductor technologies, process capabilities, packaging approaches, and industry trends relevant to wearable health products.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor definition and architecture, SoC or ASIC development, or system architecture for high-volume consumer electronics.
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor development flows, including RTL/design, verification, physical implementation, tape-out, bring-up, characterization, qualification, and production ramp.
• Deep understanding of low-power design, power modeling, power states, and system-level power trade-offs.
• Experience working with semiconductor vendors, foundries, design houses, or external technology partners.
• Familiarity with CPUs, NPUs, DSPs, memory systems, high- and low-speed interfaces, and embedded connectivity.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, ownership, communication skills, and ability to influence without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment with passionate coworkers across product, engineering, operations, and external partners.
• Health, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• 20 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays, and 8 flexible wellness days.
• Paid sick leave and parental leave.
• Oura Ring, employee discounts, competitive salary, and equity packages.