Senior Principal ASIC Design Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Germany (onsite)

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor-based connectivity solutions and software for rack-scale AI infrastructure, integrating Ethernet, CXL, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink technologies.

What you will do

• Define ASIC architecture and microarchitecture for Ethernet and scale-up connectivity products.
• Lead RTL design for Ethernet controllers, MACs, NIC datapaths, packet-processing engines, and AI networking subsystems.
• Design data movement, scheduling, buffering, queue management, flow control, congestion management, QoS, DMA, and memory interfaces.
• Develop hardware acceleration for RDMA, virtualization, protocol offloads, zero-copy data movement, and transport reliability.
• Drive ASIC execution from architecture and RTL through integration, verification, synthesis, timing closure, tapeout, and post-silicon validation.
• Set technical direction across teams and collaborate with firmware, software, digital, networking, and systems groups.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of ASIC/SoC design experience delivering complex networking or connectivity silicon from architecture through production.
• Deep expertise in RTL design and microarchitecture for high-performance networking ASICs.
• Experience with Ethernet controllers, MACs, NIC architectures, packet processing, RDMA, DMA, scheduling, buffering, queue management, flow control, and congestion management.
• Strong understanding of Ethernet, PCIe, and AI scale-up interconnects, plus hands-on experience across the complete ASIC development flow.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams and product programs.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with UALink, UCIe, PCIe Gen 6/7, advanced Ethernet architectures, SmartNICs, DPUs, NICs, or switch datapaths.
• Experience delivering Ethernet-based scale-up networking solutions for AI and HPC systems.
• Experience leading multiple advanced-node ASIC tapeouts.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and mentorship skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a technically diverse environment focused on creativity and innovation.
• Collaborate across digital, networking, systems, firmware, and software domains.
• Inclusive workplace encouraging applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.