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 SO Cs


• 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


• PL Ls / 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.