IC Design Engineer (ASIC)

Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. On-site with full-time office attendance required.

Company

hirify.global develops its own silicon for next-generation computing products, including microcontrollers and platform chips.

What you will do

• Own front-end ASIC tasks from specification and IP integration through design, verification, and implementation.
• Create verification plans and execute verification using simulation, formal methods, emulation, and FPGA platforms.
• Specify and configure IP and SoC systems in collaboration with ASIC specialists.
• Work closely with the software team on embedded development, toolchain, SDK, and developer experience implications.
• Support FPGA platforms for rapid software development and verification.
• Assist implementation teams with power analysis, timing closure, DFT, and physical design constraints.

Requirements

• Typically 10+ years of experience in SoC or MCU architecture, including at least one tape-out with architectural ownership of a chip or substantial subsystem.
• Deep knowledge of microcontroller and processor design, real-time behavior, interrupt handling, low-power modes, memory hierarchies, and common peripherals.
• Strong understanding of SoC interconnects, AXI/AHB/APB, caches, DMA, memory controllers, security architecture, and mixed real-time and OS-class systems.
• Credible experience across SystemVerilog RTL, UVM, formal verification, emulation/FPGA, DFT, timing closure, power analysis, and physical design constraints.
• Experience writing non-trivial embedded C and understanding the impact of architecture on software toolchains and SDKs.
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly, work autonomously and collaboratively, and deliver to schedule; familiarity with Bash, Python, Tcl, or similar scripting languages.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Cadence simulation tool flow.
• Experience with ASIC/FPGA synthesis and implementation, DFT architecture and insertion, software development, and scripting.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across the full silicon flow in a small ASIC team, from specification through production qualification.
• 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 and access to an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, subject to eligibility.