Senior Standard Cell Library Engineer

Location: Hybrid work model with on-site time at hirify.global sites in Santa Clara or Folsom, California, United States

Annual salary: $122,440–$232,190 USD

Company

hirify.global's Foundry Standard Cell team develops semiconductor technologies and standard cell solutions for customers.

What you will do

• Design, implement, characterize, and validate standard cell solutions against power, performance, area, manufacturability, and cost requirements.
• Execute physical design flows covering standard cell circuits, layout, extraction, characterization, and optimization.
• Optimize timing, congestion, power, signal integrity, and reliability to meet design goals.
• Develop and run end-to-end experiments, analyze results, and guide data-driven decisions for technical and management audiences.
• Generate, validate, and release custom standard cell collateral in response to on-demand requests.
• Collaborate with standard cell collateral teams and review work for design, manufacturing, and quality compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Nanoscience, Microelectronics, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• At least 2 years of experience in standard cell layout, abstract modeling, standard cell characterization, or ASIC design and verification.
• Experience with one or more relevant EDA tools, including Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys Custom Compiler, Cadence Liberate, Synopsys PrimeLib, Innovus, Fusion Compiler, Tempus, PrimeTime, HSpice, StarRC, ICV, Pegasus, or Calibre.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication to different audiences.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model with regular on-site presence at an assigned hirify.global site in California.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate degree in a relevant engineering, microelectronics, nanoscience, or STEM field.
• Unix proficiency and command-line scripting experience with csh, bash, Perl, or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model combining on-site and off-site work.
• Competitive pay and stock bonuses.
• Health, retirement, and vacation benefits.
• Opportunity to contribute to semiconductor technologies that connect and enrich lives globally.