Silicon Domain Architect (FPGA Security)

Location: San Jose, California, United States. Shift 1, United States of America.

Salary: $118,900–$178,000 USD annually for the Bay Area California market. Incentive opportunities are also available.

Company

hirify.global is an independent pure-play FPGA solutions provider developing programmable technologies for AI, cloud, networking, and edge markets.

What you will do

• Define and contribute to end-to-end architectures for silicon domain subsystems, including Root of Trust and FPGA configuration features.
• Develop technology roadmaps and architectural specifications based on product requirements and hardware/software interoperability needs.
• Define microarchitectural features, interfaces, design considerations, and implementation guidelines for future FPGA products.
• Create test plans, validation strategies, and testing infrastructure requirements for new silicon architectures and features.
• Build functional models, run simulations, analyze design tradeoffs, benchmark performance, and identify optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with hardware design, firmware, software drivers, validation, and product engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• At least 4 years of experience in semiconductor architecture, silicon design, SoC architecture, FPGA architecture, hardware security, or related hardware engineering.
• Experience translating system requirements into hardware architecture specifications, technical requirements, or design documentation.
• Knowledge of secure boot, Root of Trust concepts, cryptographic foundations, trusted computing technologies, or security-focused silicon features.
• Experience defining or analyzing hardware/software interfaces, firmware interactions, configuration requirements, or system integration considerations.
• Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of experience in semiconductor architecture, SoC design, FPGA architecture, or silicon development.
• Experience with Root of Trust implementations, secure lifecycle management, FPGA security features, secure provisioning, device authentication, or cryptographic acceleration.
• Experience developing architectural models, simulation environments, benchmarking methodologies, or performance analysis techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an independent organization focused exclusively on FPGA solutions.
• Contribute to products serving AI, cloud, networking, and edge markets.
• Collaborate across architecture, hardware, firmware, software, validation, and product engineering disciplines.
• Incentive opportunities are tied to individual and company performance.