Senior SoC Design Lead & Architecture Driver

Nordic Semi; Oulu, Tampere; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with short- andlong

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance

Family-friendly policies, insurances,,

Job summary

Nordic Semi in Oulu, Finland seeks a senior SoC design leader to guide architecture, verification, and production readiness for next-generation microcontrollers and wireless SoCs. You will manage the digital design team across RTL, timing, power, and integration, coordinating with analog, software, and product groups while ensuring schedule, quality and performance goals.

The role combines deep technical leadership with strategic impact, requiring proven experience in tape-out projects and

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in electrical or microelectronics engineering.
• Extensive hands-on SoC design experience including tape-out.
• Proven leadership of technical teams with strong planning and delivery.
• fluent English and excellent communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the SoC design team, including planning, mentoring and performance follow-up.
• Own SoC-level architecture and microarchitecture decisions with system architects.
• Drive the design flow from specification through integration, synthesis and sign-off.
• Plan and track the SoC project schedule, deliverables and risks.
• Define integration and verification strategy across top-level, gate-level and low-power.
• Coordinate interfaces to analog, RF, memory, IP, and to physical design and software teams.
• Support silicon bring-up, debug and root-cause analysis.
• Improve design methodologies, flows, reuse and quality practices.

Skills

Leadership experience

Project planning

Communication skills

Fluent English

SoC design leadership

RTL design (Verilog)

Education

Master's or PhD in electrical engineering / microelectronics

Tools

Synthesis tools

Timing analysis tools

Physical design handoff tools

Job description

Nordic Semi in Oulu, Finland seeks a senior SoC design leader to guide architecture, verification, and production readiness for next-generation microcontrollers and wireless SoCs. You will manage the digital design team across RTL, timing, power, and integration, coordinating with analog, software, and product groups while ensuring schedule, quality and performance goals.

The role combines deep technical leadership with strategic impact, requiring proven experience in tape-out projects and