Senior SoC Design Lead: Drive Tape-out & Architecture

Nordic Semiconductor; Tampere; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary with incentive plan

Medical insurance

Family-friendly policies and benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Nordic Semiconductor in Finland seeks a high-impact SoC Design Lead to guide the architecture, integration and verification of next‑generation microcontrollers and wireless SoCs. You will own the design flow from spec to tape-out, manage schedules, risks and cross-functional interfaces with analog, software, physical design and product teams.

The role requires a strong leadership track record, deep RTL/SoC expertise, and hands-on experience delivering tape-outs.

Formación

• Master's or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, microelectronics or a related field.
• Extensive and hands-on experience with digital or SoC design, including several SoCs taken to tape-out and production.
• Proven experience leading technical teams or large design projects, with strong planning and delivery skills.
• Strong command of RTL design (Verilog/SystemVerilog), SoC integration, clock and reset architecture, and low-power design methods.
• Solid understanding of embedded processor subsystems, bus fabrics, memory systems and on-chip interfaces.
• Experience with synthesis, static timing analysis, DFT and physical design handoff, and with verification methodology.
• Experience from silicon bring-up, debug and root-cause analysis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, and fluent English.
• The ideal candidate combines technical depth with leadership, takes ownership of results, works well across disciplines, and has real enthusiasm for building SoCs.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and grow the SoC design team, including planning, task allocation, mentoring and performance follow-up.
• Own SoC-level architecture and microarchitecture decisions together with the system architects, balancing performance, power, area, cost and time to market.
• Drive the SoC design flow from specification and RTL through integration, synthesis, timing closure, DFT and sign-off.
• Plan and track the SoC project schedule, deliverables and risks, and report status to stakeholders and management.
• Define SoC integration and verification strategy with the verification team, including top-level, gate-level and low-power verification.
• Coordinate the interfaces to analog, RF, memory and third-party IP, and to physical design, test and software teams.
• Support silicon bring-up, debug and characterization, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Improve design methodologies, flows, reuse and quality practices across the group.
• Document design decisions, assumptions, results and risks for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Conocimientos

RTL design

SoC integration

Low-power design

Embedded subsystems

Memory systems

On-chip interfaces

Synthesis

Static timing analysis

DFT

Physical design

Leadership

English fluency

Educación

Master's or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Descripción del empleo

Nordic Semiconductor in Finland seeks a high-impact SoC Design Lead to guide the architecture, integration and verification of next‑generation microcontrollers and wireless SoCs. You will own the design flow from spec to tape-out, manage schedules, risks and cross-functional interfaces with analog, software, physical design and product teams.

The role requires a strong leadership track record, deep RTL/SoC expertise, and hands-on experience delivering tape-outs.