
Aion Silicon helps companies accelerate development of custom, high-performance chips. They deliver full-service SoC and ASIC design, guiding architecture, IP selection, design, tapeout, and…

Aion Silicon helps companies accelerate development of custom, high-performance chips. They deliver full-service SoC and ASIC design, guiding architecture, IP selection, design, tapeout, and…
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Are you an experienced Principal Design Engineer looking for your next challenge?
Aion Silicon is actively building a pipeline of talented engineers for future opportunities, and we’d love to hear from skilled professionals who are passionate about Design.
With design centers across the UK, Spain, Hyderabad, and Morocco , we offer the flexibility to base this role in any of our global locations. If you’re interested in exploring future opportunities with us, please click the link below to apply and register your interest.
Purpose of role
The primary aim of this role is to lead front-end design activities within customer projects. A lead technical planner and contributor on ASIC and IP development projects, working very closely with the programmed management and senior design leads to implement and track digital IP designs and integrate these and 3rd party designs into customer ASICs and SoCs.
The role involves working directly with customers, IP vendors and architects to define innovative tailored solutions that can be translated into high quality, achievable designs.
The candidate will own and technically lead aspects of a design or ASIC/SoC integration and will lead and monitor the interactions between multi-site engineering teams to ensure efficient communication, resolve design and methodology issues and make effective decisions to ensure projects remain on track with respect to schedules, budgets, and quality commitments.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
A degree/masters or PhD in either a relevant or non-relevant subject
Essential
· Typically, 10+ years’ experience
· Very Strong knowledge of digital design concepts and application in complex SoCs
· Experience with High-Performance Compute (HPC) architectures, including:
o CPU design and optimisation
o Interconnect design
o Inter-die or Chip-Chip high-speed data interfaces
· Serves as a subject matter expert within a technical discipline with latitude for decision making
· Serves as an independent individual contributor to technical project and lead the technical direction of team members
· Solves technical problems of advanced complexity and conveys/applies solutions
· Evaluates issues and defines solutions
· Applies judgment in interpreting results and conducting quantitative analysis
· May manage others on the team
· Provides technical training
· Contributes to technical white papers
· Contributes to sales support as part of a team effort, such as a Statement of Work
· Listens to customer feedback, recognizes opportunities and provides feedback for technical innovation
Use of Issue and Task tracking tools (e.g Jira)
Attributes