Staff/ Principal Physical Design CAD Engineer (AI)

Location: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Company

hirify.global develops rack-scale AI infrastructure and semiconductor connectivity solutions based on CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink technologies, supported by its COSMOS software suite.

What you will do

• Develop, maintain, and improve physical design CAD flows and methodologies using industry-standard EDA tools.
• Build automation infrastructure for implementation, analysis, reporting, debugging, and large-scale design flows.
• Support synthesis, floorplanning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, power optimization, physical verification, and signoff readiness.
• Create scripts and utilities that improve productivity, quality of results, and flow robustness.
• Support and enhance flows based on Synopsys Fusion Compiler.
• Analyze tool logs, QoR metrics, timing reports, congestion, utilization, power, and design-rule issues while integrating GenAI solutions for repetitive tasks and debugging.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in physical design, CAD, or implementation methodology.
• Strong knowledge of digital physical design, including synthesis, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, and physical verification.
• Hands-on experience with Synopsys Fusion Compiler and automation around EDA tools.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Tcl and Python.
• Understanding of timing, power, congestion, floorplanning, and QoR analysis.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, collaboration, and motivation to apply GenAI technologies in semiconductor design flows.

Nice to have

• Experience with PrimeTime, StarRC, ICC2, Innovus, Voltus, RedHawk, Calibre, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of STA, low-power design, UPF, EM/IR, extraction, or signoff flows.
• Experience building dashboards, regression systems, flow checkers, or automated report analyzers.
• Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, AI agents, GenAI coding or debugging tools, Git, CI/CD, databases, or cloud-based compute environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to join a new strategic R&D center in Israel as a foundational technical contributor.
• Work on semiconductor chips addressing data bottlenecks in large-scale AI infrastructure.
• Inclusive environment welcoming diverse backgrounds and experiences.