Digital IC Implementation Engineer

Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; full-time office attendance required.

Company

hirify.global develops its own silicon, including microcontrollers and southbridge chips for hirify.global products.

What you will do

• Contribute to the complete physical design flow from RTL to GDS.
• Work with the design team to understand requirements and close performance, power, and area goals.
• Develop timing constraints and UPF, and contribute to synthesis, design discovery, place and route, CTS, STA, formal verification, ECO methodology, and physical verification.
• Support chip-level floorplanning, hierarchical implementation methodologies, and power grid design.
• Contribute to tapeout sign-off, ATE test, qualification, and production readiness.
• Share implementation knowledge and mentor other team members.

Requirements

• Multiple tapeouts on advanced technology nodes.
• Strong understanding of modern place-and-route flows and implementation methodologies.
• Experience with full tapeout sign-off, including physical verification, STA, and power integrity.
• Experience with chip-level floorplanning, hierarchical methodologies, and power grid design.
• Experience developing constraints, UPF, and high-quality floorplans.
• Experience with synthesis and providing RTL design input to improve physical QOR.
• Scripting skills for driving implementation tools and analysing results.
• Good understanding of the implementation flow from synthesis through silicon sign-off, with specialist expertise in at least one area.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and willingness to work on site in Cambridge.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Cadence implementation tool flow.
• Experience implementing complex designs.
• Experience with advanced FinFET technologies.
• Good understanding of design and front-end processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 8% when contributing 4% of gross salary through the salary sacrifice scheme.
• Life assurance of four times base salary.
• Income protection covering 75% of base salary after 13 weeks of long-term illness or absence.
• Private medical insurance with medical history disregarded.
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, subject to eligibility.