Physical Design Lead

About the role

Phinity is an AI research lab focused on solving chip design. The bottleneck to AGI is compute, and we enable AI agents to tape-out chips autonomously, from architecture to post-silicon. We are building RL environments, agent infrastructure, and evaluation systems to accomplish this. Our team brings together deep AI and silicon expertise, including leaders and executives from top chip companies, post-training chip-design models at NVIDIA, AI for formal verification research, previous exits, and over 10 years of experience building chips at NVIDIA, Intel, Mediatek, and others.

We are hiring a Physical Design Lead.

You will be responsible for

• Leading PD flows and optimization of block-level to full-chip level optimizations
• Define Synthesis to layout flows, including PDN, clock-trees, PVT corners and custom cell definitions. Responsible for implementing characterization flows for custom cells and memory blocks.
• Responsible for executing IP and Fullchip design optimizations working with PD engineers. Identify areas of optimization in design utilization, power grid and clock network within the design.
• Responsible for delivering tapeout ready design optimized for the target PPA, and utilizing the in-house capability on prompt-to-GDS.

Why Phinity

• Work directly with the founders to shape the strategy and growth of an ambitious AI research lab
• Take ownership of high-impact initiatives across business strategy, partnerships, and company operations
• Collaborate with leading AI researchers and hardware experts at the frontier of autonomous chip design

Benefits include

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Lunch and dinner provided in-office