Senior CAD Semiconductor Engineer (AI)

Location: Thessaloniki or Athens, Greece

Company

hirify.global delivers technology and engineering services, including support for semiconductor design and verification environments.

What you will do

• Define, deploy, and maintain EDA flows for digital, mixed-signal, simulation, synthesis, place and route, DFT, and signoff activities.
• Evaluate, benchmark, qualify, and deploy EDA tools, releases, and methodologies from Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, and Arteris.
• Design and operate Linux-based compute farms, distributed storage, backup and disaster recovery systems, and FlexLM/Flexera license infrastructure.
• Develop automation frameworks, tool installation processes, regression systems, monitoring, resource provisioning, and Jenkins or GitLab CI pipelines.
• Collaborate with design, verification, and physical implementation teams and EDA vendors to resolve issues, improve turnaround time, and align tool roadmaps.
• Integrate AI-driven workflows for LLM-assisted scripting, log analysis, debugging, workflow optimization, and knowledge retrieval in hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

Requirements

• Strong experience with full EDA flows, including simulation, synthesis, place and route, verification, and DFT.
• Experience with EDA tool validation, qualification, deployment, versioning, release management, and regression validation.
• Strong knowledge of Linux compute farms, NFS or distributed storage, CI/CD, monitoring, performance optimization, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Programming and scripting experience with Python, Perl, Shell, and TCL, plus familiarity with object-oriented programming and infrastructure automation.
• Understanding of RTL design, verification flows, physical design constraints, silicon quality, productivity, Git or SVN, and DevOps practices.
• Practical experience integrating AI/LLM-based tools and hybrid cloud/on-premises GPU infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of ISO26262 or DO-254.

Culture & Benefits

• Work involves collaboration with engineering teams, management, and EDA vendors.
• Focus on balancing infrastructure performance, cost, scalability, reliability, and usability.
• Support security, compliance, and reliability requirements in environments such as ISO 27001.
• Provide regular reporting on tool performance, usage, and roadmap alignment.