Principal Engineer - Physical Design

Location: Nantes, France

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor products, including microcontrollers and microprocessors, within a large global engineering organization.

What you will do

• Implement physical design for 32-bit general-purpose and wireless microcontrollers and microprocessors, including floorplanning, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, routing, crosstalk avoidance, and physical verification.
• Perform power integrity analysis across multiple voltage domains, including IR drop, signal electromigration, and power electromigration analysis.
• Develop hierarchical systems-level designs exceeding multi-million gates and support multi-voltage island-based floorplans.
• Support timing closure, clock tree setup and debugging, place-and-route methodologies, and low-power implementation.
• Develop and automate implementation flows, deliver physical-verification-clean designs, and contribute to die-size estimation and bond-out approval.
• Collaborate with international design teams, external vendors, and IP sources to resolve implementation issues.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical experience in physical design and timing-related IC design.
• Advanced knowledge of VLSI logic principles, power integrity, reliability, EM and IR analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of place-and-route and low-power methodologies, including clock tree synthesis, debugging, and timing closure.
• Experience with 40nm technologies and beyond, detailed systems-level floorplanning, power network planning, and multi-voltage implementation.
• Detailed knowledge of Innovus or ICC/ICC2 and RedHawk toolsets.
• Proficiency in Tcl, Python, and Perl scripting, with strong debugging, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with autonomy and leadership opportunities.
• Collaboration across geographically diverse and international teams.
• Employee development supported through leadership and career-growth programs.
• Travel requirement of 0%–25%.