Manager, Physical Design Engineer

Location: Fully onsite in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Salary: CAD 180,000–220,000 base salary per year, depending on experience, level, and business need. The role may also include discretionary bonuses, incentives, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through semiconductor-based connectivity solutions and software for hyperscalers and large data centers.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor the Toronto physical design engineering team and own team development.
• Drive block- and top-level physical design implementation for retimer and signal-conditioning ASICs from floorplanning through tapeout.
• Own the physical design flow from RTL to GDSII, including synthesis, place-and-route, clock-tree synthesis, extraction, timing closure, and sign-off.
• Collaborate with RTL, DFT, STA, EMIR, verification, and IP vendor teams to achieve design convergence.
• Coordinate with physical design teams in San Jose, Irvine, and Bangalore on methodology and design quality.
• Establish best practices, flow improvements, quality checks, hiring processes, career development, and sprint planning for concurrent programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience implementing complex SoCs at advanced nodes, including 7nm and below.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams or projects, with demonstrated mentoring and engineer development experience.
• Hands-on experience with synthesis, place-and-route, CTS, extraction, timing closure, EM-IR, DRC/LVS, and equivalence checking.
• Proficiency with Cadence Innovus and/or Synopsys Fusion Compiler or ICC2, plus strong scripting skills in Tcl, Python, and/or Perl.
• Ability to work fully onsite at the Toronto location.

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of high-speed SerDes physical layers, including equalization, CDR, and signal integrity.
• Understanding of physical-layer timing challenges in high-speed serial interfaces.
• Experience building and scaling physical design teams through multiple tapeouts.
• Knowledge of agentic AI solutions for EDA automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on connectivity products deployed in large AI clusters and hyperscale data centers.
• Collaboration with global physical design teams and ecosystem partners.
• Discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits may be available.
• hirify.global encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.