Digital Design Lead/Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage digital team, hire, and retain best talent
• Lead SOC integration design team to develop and productize next generation mixed-signal RF/communication SOCs
• Work with cross-functional project teams to define product specifications, system architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and execution plan
• Implement best SoC development practices and improve design methodology to maximize efficiency and predictability
• Deliver chip architecture, design, integration, programming model, verification, and manage hand-off to backend
• Support Silicon and System Validation, support system integration, and production testing
• Drive innovation and provides leadership to the organization to ensure world-class system solutions and flawless execution

Qualifications

• BSEE Required, MSEE Preferred
• Proven track record of success in high-performance/high-volume semiconductor industry
• SoC, embedded CPU and bus architectures, networking, and control interfaces
• Communications / DSP algorithms and power / area efficient implementations
• Digital IC design, design for low power and high speed, design for test (DFT)
• System modeling, RTL coding, Lint / CDC checking, simulation, synthesis, power analysis, timing analysis in Cadence / Synopsys design environments
• Directed and constrained random verification, UVM methodology
• Embedded systems FPGA emulation, lab debug and chip validation
• Project planning and execution, and performing design tradeoffs to achieve performance, power, die size, and schedule targets
• Self-motivated, excellent communication skills, and ability to excel and to provide leadership in a fast-paced environment
• Senior Management experience preferred
• Work with architecture, physical design, and design teams to lead the implementation of the digital architecture.
• Develop and refine specification of the micro-architecture for the digital architecture.
• Is in tune with industry trends and contributes to consistent roadmap decisions.

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in the area of RTL design and verification of silicon
• At Least 3+ years experience in leading low-power mixed-Signal SOC design
• 10+ years of experience with FPGA architecture specification and design (Altera or Xilinx) for high-speed serial protocols, including USB-SS, PCIe, SATA/SAS, DisplayPort
• Experience in leading, specifying, and work with Analog/RF team in developing, verifying, and productizing SERDES, CDR, and PLL/DLL designs
• Experience with USB 3.0, DisplayPort, PCIe, or SATA based silicon designs preferred
• Strong background in analog/mixed-signal integrated SOC Development
• Strong Hardware design knowledge and familiarity with signal integrity
• Strong foundation in SoC architecture, design, verification and physical implementation
• Strong analytical problem solving, and attention to details
• Knowledge of wireless, mobile, and storage domains
• Expertise in Verilog/System Verilog, C/C++/SystemC, UVM, Scripting languages like Perl/Python, etc.
• Excellent technical documentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, self-motivated, self-starter
• Experience in startup environment

Expectations

• Put the RTL for the Full chip together.
• Evaluate the IP we have to license – like PCIe, LPDDR4, JESD 204C PHY
• Help develop any BIST
• Work with Verification Team to develop the FC Simulation test suites
• Develop the RTL for the various state machines and interfaces
• Run a few of the simulations
• Help with the FC simulations debug
• Help close the timing issues if any come up and work with the PD person to resolve any SI issues.
• Be a mentor and lead a team of Digital design engineers
• Work with Systems and Test engineering team to help validate the parts and release them to production