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

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

Client:

IC Resources

Location:

Milan

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Job Views:

7

Posted:

28.03.2025

Expiry Date:

12.05.2025

Job Description:

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 process & design 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 RTL to GDS
• SOC design, integration, system design, system architecture
• Power management / PMIC / ultra-low power / optimisation & performance
• Synthesis / HLS / STA
• Physical implementation / physical design

• 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-bandwidth memory / cache coherency
• Clock, timing constraints