SoC Design Manager
Switzerland - Switzerland
Permanent
An award-winning, innovative semiconductor company, developing and manufacturing the world's leading ultra low power technology platforms, is looking for a Technical Design Manager to lead its next-generation IoT system-on-chip (SoC) platform design and implementation activities, drive methodology, EDA tools and technology roadmap.
We are looking for an accomplished people leader with a proven track record in managing cross-functional teams to deliver low-power RF/mixed-signal SoCs into high-volume markets on time, budget, and specifications.
Reporting directly to the VP Development, you will:
• Drive company-wide methodology for efficient and effective SoC development and integration across analog, RF, digital, and SW design and design-for-test (DfT), pre-silicon verification, post-silicon validation and production test.
• Work with product and SW quality representatives to ensure and formalize state-of-the-art design and test processes.
• Leverage industry-standard design flow expertise and define and implement requirements management and traceability throughout the product development flow
• Manage cross-organizational functional teams (EDA & DevOps, digital physical design, custom layout, etc.) to meet short- and long-term company objectives
• Manage cross-organizational IP & Platform teams, define and own the company IP roadmap.
• Define and manage central resources, IP and platforms across a broad range of product lines.
• Coordinate project schedules with project managers in charge of respective products with potentially competing project schedules
• Lead, hire and develop your people and raise the bar to meet the increasing challenges in our industry and build leading-edge products with aggressive time-to-market
Key Responsibilities
• Manage team leaders covering a total of 30-35 FTEs with a focus on individual growth and empowerment
• Animate cross-organizational methodology expert groups to take our design methodologies to the next level and ensure quality of design reviews and milestones deliverables across the organization through expert groups and lessons learned processes
• Coordinate with business units to define next-generation platform and technology roadmap
• Work with internal and external IP suppliers to ensure best-in-class IP availability for integration
• Run cross-functional engineering meetings
• Dive into and take ownership of crucial design issues
• Lead design reviews
• Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality
• Deliver year-on-year performance, power, and form factor improvements
• Drive analysis to determine performance targets
Qualifications
• A strong people manager and coach with a passion for building high-performing teams that can
thrive in a start-up like environment and deliver reliably at a scale that our product portfolio
demands.
• 10 years in SoC & mixed signal design, min 5 years in people management roles, able to get
things done inside his/her team, in cross-functional mode, and by people without direct reporting line.
• Solid understanding of mixed-signal/RF SoCs and industrialization, with a proven track record in taking projects to volume production
• Strong background in both hardware and software project management including Agile
methodology. Past project certification desirable. Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) expertise a
strong plus.
• Excellent communication skills at all organizational levels with good ability to motivate and rally teams around a vision for change. Proficiency in English, German or French fluency a plus.
• Experience with automotive core tools (FMEA, APQP/PPAP) and Zero Defect Strategies a
strong plus.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skill
We are looking for an accomplished people leader with a proven track record in managing cross-functional teams to deliver low-power RF/mixed-signal SoCs into high-volume markets on time, budget, and specifications.
Reporting directly to the VP Development, you will:
• Drive company-wide methodology for efficient and effective SoC development and integration across analog, RF, digital, and SW design and design-for-test (DfT), pre-silicon verification, post-silicon validation and production test.
• Work with product and SW quality representatives to ensure and formalize state-of-the-art design and test processes.
• Leverage industry-standard design flow expertise and define and implement requirements management and traceability throughout the product development flow
• Manage cross-organizational functional teams (EDA & DevOps, digital physical design, custom layout, etc.) to meet short- and long-term company objectives
• Manage cross-organizational IP & Platform teams, define and own the company IP roadmap.
• Define and manage central resources, IP and platforms across a broad range of product lines.
• Coordinate project schedules with project managers in charge of respective products with potentially competing project schedules
• Lead, hire and develop your people and raise the bar to meet the increasing challenges in our industry and build leading-edge products with aggressive time-to-market
Key Responsibilities
• Manage team leaders covering a total of 30-35 FTEs with a focus on individual growth and empowerment
• Animate cross-organizational methodology expert groups to take our design methodologies to the next level and ensure quality of design reviews and milestones deliverables across the organization through expert groups and lessons learned processes
• Coordinate with business units to define next-generation platform and technology roadmap
• Work with internal and external IP suppliers to ensure best-in-class IP availability for integration
• Run cross-functional engineering meetings
• Dive into and take ownership of crucial design issues
• Lead design reviews
• Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality
• Deliver year-on-year performance, power, and form factor improvements
• Drive analysis to determine performance targets
Qualifications
• A strong people manager and coach with a passion for building high-performing teams that can
thrive in a start-up like environment and deliver reliably at a scale that our product portfolio
demands.
• 10 years in SoC & mixed signal design, min 5 years in people management roles, able to get
things done inside his/her team, in cross-functional mode, and by people without direct reporting line.
• Solid understanding of mixed-signal/RF SoCs and industrialization, with a proven track record in taking projects to volume production
• Strong background in both hardware and software project management including Agile
methodology. Past project certification desirable. Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) expertise a
strong plus.
• Excellent communication skills at all organizational levels with good ability to motivate and rally teams around a vision for change. Proficiency in English, German or French fluency a plus.
• Experience with automotive core tools (FMEA, APQP/PPAP) and Zero Defect Strategies a
strong plus.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skill
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