Digital IC Design Chip Lead (Director level - Italy / remote within Italy)

Brand new project - focused on high speed data connectivity - and leveraged towards server / data centre / LLM applications

Cutting edge AI accelerator project, working for an exciting and well-funded start-up in the semiconductor space - to be based full-time in Italy.

Salary is negotiable - (based on seniority and relevance of experience) - circa €100-150k (or higher)

I am looking for a chip design lead to be responsible for the end to end design, set-up, micro-architecture definition, definition 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 including 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
• 15+ years' experience of full chip design and delivery
• Tech lead / team leadership / team management
• Digital / AMS, analog-mixed-signal IP, chips and SOCs
• 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 architecture
• 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 leads / Chip leads / architects / managers / director level engineers who have delivered multiple/complex chips...

AND who have EU working rights...AND who are willing to be based in Italy - FULL TIME.