Responsibilities :

Company is seeking a Technical Director for the Digital ASIC Architecture team. Digital ASIC team provides innovative ASIC solutions for the challenges in wired and wireless communications, storage, networking domains.

As an architect you would understand Marketing Requirements and translate them to detailed Systems Requirements, Test Plans and Programming Models for one or more subsystems in the chip.

This role requires a holistic view of the system, accounting for various customer use cases and crafting versatile, modular, scalable solutions that meet current and future use cases.

The solutions shall ensure compliance with the applicable standards. The solutions shall account for the capabilities and limitations of the applicable technologies.

You would guide the ASIC team from Architecture stage all the way till production. You would provide guidance by providing system level view, clarifying requirements, reviewing architecture, design documents, test plans, test results etc.

You would be monitoring all aspects of the subsystem you own and be the primary person to sign off.

You would work with Marketing, Architecture and all product development teams throughout the chip development process to ensure the chip meets all the requirements.

You would also work with the customer teams understanding their requirements, issues and drive solutions to address them.

As the chips target communication market, they include RF circuits, DSP systems, Packet processing and/or multi-CPU SOC environments.

A deep understanding, expertise and proven industry experience in one or more of these domains is required for the role.

An ideal person will be a curious and seasoned engineer, with unsatiated thirst for knowledge and technology and a problem solver with a "never give up" attitude.

The person should work with cross domain teams and leverage the differences in skill sets.

Engineering is about teamwork, collective brainstorming and precise unambiguous communication. An ideal person shall aspire to achieve these goals.

In this role, you will focus on the following :

- Architect effective, versatile chips or subsystems in a chip as per business requirements

- Define/contribute to road map of chips

- Develop Systems Requirements Document, Test Plans, Programming Models based on Marketing Requirements Document for a chip

- Drive definition of architectural solutions at chip, subsystem level from requirement documents

- Present merits of different options on how they deliver on functional, performance and chip PPA goals and drive convergence on optimal choices

- Define efficient ways to implement and realize the design

- Guide Engineering teams during different phases of product development

- Drive reviews of Engineering deliverables as per Company process. Be the primary person to sign off on the applicable deliverables

- Interface with cross functional teams including Marketing, DSP, RFIC, SW, DFT, PD, Ops, CAD, Program Management teams

- Manage design support on technical questions related to delivered chips to the customer support team

- Drive innovation in technology, methodology and development processes

Qualifications :

- Strong fundamentals and proven expertise in digital logic design, CMOS technology and ASIC design methodology

- Strong fundamentals in programming, CPU architecture and SOC systems

- Specialization in Digital Signal Processing, Communication systems, or Networking systems

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Passion for learning and engineering innovative and efficient solutions

- 18+ years of experience in Digital ASIC implementation at chip level including

- Architecture, Micro-architecture, Development Planning

- System level knowledge and experience not only chip design but also boards and systems where they get used

- Ability to estimate chip PPA aspects, anticipate architecture, implementation risks

- RTL design skills using Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL

- Subsystem and Chip level verification, validation and interop planning

- Strong knowledge of ASIC implementation flows, challenges and foresight

- Proven written and verbal communication skills that demonstrate clarity of thought and conviction

- Working knowledge of one or more scripting languages and ability to use them to automate/accelerate design and analysis tasks

- BE/M.Tech in EE/ECE