Package Layout Engineer (Advanced Packaging)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; flexible hybrid workplace model

Salary: $157,000–$176,000 USD annually, plus equity and other rewards

Company

hirify.global develops photonics-based infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing data centers, including 3D-stacked photonics engines.

What you will do

• Deliver IC package substrate layouts for standard and advanced packaging technologies.
• Create preliminary substrate designs and floorplans to optimize silicon, package, and motherboard stack-ups.
• Apply substrate layout rules, stack-ups, and implementation guidelines with suppliers and OSAT partners.
• Generate fabrication files and coordinate Design for Manufacturing and Design for Assembly closure.
• Design packages that meet signal integrity, power integrity, thermal, mechanical, analog, and digital requirements.
• Support iterative routing, package tape-outs, design automation, and verification across functional teams.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience, including 3–5 years in IC package layout design.
• Proficiency with Allegro X APD.
• Understanding of IC package substrates, organic materials, and their impact on package design.
• Ability to collaborate with signal integrity, power integrity, packaging, substrate supplier, and OSAT teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Cadence Integrity 3DIC, Expedition Package Designer, Pads Layout, or Altium.
• Experience with SKILL or Python scripting for layout design automation.
• Exposure to 2.5D/3D IC, silicon interposer, EMIB, or fan-out chip-on-wafer architectures.
• Experience evaluating floorplans, escape routing, bump patterns, and die-to-die interface topologies.
• Background in IC packaging and substrate layout design.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid workplace model.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings matching, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Vacation, sick leave, public holidays, and paid family leave.
• Training and development, commuter benefits, and equity grants for full-time employees.