SoC Design and Technical Lead

SoC Design/Technical Lead (Director/Senior Principal) – SOUTH UK

This is a fantastic opportunity to build and lead a team working on innovative, class leading silicon.

My client are looking at opening a small design centre in the south of the UK, this will be based wherever the successful lead is – could be Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, Thames Valley, London. The HQ is in the North. My client is developing a novel photonic-electronic architecture that will bring fully homomorphic encryption to the world. The development provides a huge opportunity to become the ubiquitous choice for this new upcoming market across multiple industry sectors.

In order to achieve their goal of bringing this technology to the mass market, they are assembling a highly skilled team to build a complex SoC.

I am looking for somebody to take the role of SoC Design/Technical Lead. You would be overall accountable for successful delivery of the SoC to the foundry. Working with the SoC Architect and Verification Lead, you would help define and execute the strategy to build a SoC that achieves our technical and commercial goals.

You will be overall accountable for the delivery of the SoC ready for manufacture:

To be suitable for this role ideally you will have a strong background in SoC design and engineering leadership.

You will need to be collaborative, an excellent communicator and able to work in a fast-changing environment. You will have:

• A proven track record in SoC design with exposure to all phases in the flow including requirements collection, verification/validation, design and physical implementation
• Experience leading engineering teams and the ability to provide clarity from complexity
• Deep understanding of modern design techniques and tools including performance/power optimisation, DFT, modelling and Verilog coding
• Excellent understanding of verification challenges and the ability to support verification teams to achieve closure
• The ability to communicate clearly with both expert and non-expert audiences

The company is currently relatively small, around 15 people but you will get the opportunity to lead and bring this product to market, be instrumental in the growth and success and really watch your work come to fruition.

For more information and a confidential discussion, please contact Rachel Mason.