Physical Design Engineer (ASIC)

Location: Saratoga, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global is a Silicon Valley hardware startup developing silicon, packaging, software, and systems for high-performance AI data center networking.

What you will do

• Define the physical assembly of SoCs, including placement and routing, timing, floorplanning, clocking, electrical analysis, and power.
• Architect top-level and block-level floorplans and develop synthesis design constraints using SDC.
• Implement designs with Innovus or Synopsys Fusion Compiler, covering synthesis, floorplanning, power planning, and timing closure.
• Work with micro-architects to evaluate feasibility and balance performance, power, and area tradeoffs.
• Develop physical design methodologies and customize implementation recipes to optimize PPA.
• Run and validate signoff flows for timing, power, EM/IR, and physical design verification with a multifunctional engineering team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience and a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Experience with synthesis, place-and-route, analysis, verification, and CAD tools.
• Proficiency in Innovus or Synopsys Fusion Compiler, including floorplanning, power planning, and timing closure.
• Experience with multiple tape-outs in deep-submicron technologies at 7nm or below.
• Fluency in Unix, Perl, Python, or TCL scripting, with knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Understanding of device physics, logic and physical design principles, low-power design, and high-performance implementation.

Nice to have

• Experience designing large skew-optimized clock trees such as H-Trees.
• Exposure to clock grid implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with an experienced engineering team focused on AI infrastructure and advanced silicon.
• Contribute to technologies intended to improve AI data center performance, power efficiency, reliability, and deployment speed.
• Compensation is determined based on skills, experience, qualifications, work location, market trends, and comparable employee compensation.