Brand new, and cutting edge AI project, working for an exciting US start-up in the semiconductor space - to be based full-time from the UK.
Salary is negotiable - (based on seniority and relevance of experience) - circa £110-140k (or higher)
I am looking for a SOC/chip design lead to be responsible for the end to end design, set-up, micro-architecture defintion, defintion of the whole prcess & desgin flow and RTL design of a new AI project, based on neural networks technology.
You will be the lead designer, with duties inclduing team leadership / management of a small team in charge of delivering the full chip to delivery at the fab.
Must have experience:
* Degree / Masters / PhD in electronics / micro-electronics, physics or similar field
* 10-20 years' experience of full chip design and delivery
* Tech lead / team leadership / team management
* Digital / AMS, analog-mixed-signal IP
* End to end chip / SOC delivery experience
* ASIC & FPGA - verilog, system verilog, VHDL
* ADC / DAC - digital - analog interfaces
* Functional verification - system verilog - IP, system, sub-system, block, top level experience
* Creation of test-benches
* detailed knowledge of complex tape-out processes, and interactions with fabrication plants
* Full digital design flow, from RTL2GDS
* SOC design, integration, system design, system architecure
* power management / PMIC / ultra-low power / optimisation & performance
* synthesis / HLS / STA
* physical implementation / physical design
Bonus / nice to have skills
* CPU / GPU / RISC-V design and architecture
* TPU / VPU / FPU - tensor, vector or floating point processor units
* HW, hardware accelerators
* PLLs / filter design
* RF-SOC
* DSP, signal processing
* Flash memory - DDR / HBM / high-bandwith memory / cache chorency
* clock, timing constraints
This position is ONLY available to senior level digital design engineers with full UK working rights