SOC Digital Design Lead

Exciting opportunity to lead a cutting-edge AI project with a US start-up in the semiconductor industry.

We are seeking a highly experienced SOC/chip design lead to oversee the end-to-end design, set-up, and micro-architecture definition of a new AI project based on neural networks technology.

You will be responsible for leading a small team in charge of delivering the full chip to delivery at the fab.

• Master's or PhD in electronics, micro-electronics, physics, or a similar field
• 10-20 years of experience in full chip design and delivery
• Proven leadership skills as a tech lead or team manager
• Digital and analog-mixed-signal IP expertise
• End-to-end chip/SOC delivery experience
• Proficiency in ASIC & FPGA, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, and digital-analog interfaces
• Familiarity with complex tape-out processes and interactions with fabrication plants
• Full digital design flow from RTL to GDS
• SOC design, integration, system design, and system architecture
• Power management, PMIC, ultra-low power optimization, and performance
• Synthesis, HLS, STA, physical implementation, and physical design

• CPU/GPU/RISC-V design and architecture
• TPU/VPU/FPU design and tensor/vector/floating-point processor units
• HW/hardware accelerators
• PLL/filter design
• RF-SOC
• DSP/signal processing
• Flash memory/DDR/HBM/high-bandwidth memory/cache coherence
• Clock/timing constraints

This position is only available to senior-level digital design engineers with full UK working rights.