RTL Design Team Lead - FPGA/ASIC (5G & Satellite)

Spectrum IT Recruitment; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is partnering with an innovative communications technology company to hire an RTL Design Team Lead. You will lead a hardware design team and stay closely involved in the technical development and delivery of complex IP for FPGA and ASIC platforms.

You'll work with Algorithm, System Architecture and Software teams to shape decisions and translate requirements into high-performance hardware solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Expert knowledge of RTL design using Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Strong experience delivering complex digital designs targeting FPGA and ASIC.
• Experience optimising timing and hardware resources for high-throughput data or signal-processing applications.
• Knowledge of power-management techniques, synthesis and timing analysis.
• Strong experience with industry-standard EDA simulation and synthesis tools.
• Experience taking complex hardware designs through the development lifecycle.
• An understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience with requirements capture and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Leading the technical delivery of complex FPGA and ASIC design projects.
• Providing hands-on technical leadership across RTL design and implementation.
• Leading, mentoring and developing a high-performing hardware design team.
• Contributing to the technical roadmap for future generations of the company's technology.
• Working with executive and product teams to translate requirements into hardware deliverables.
• Overseeing RTL designs targeting FPGA and ASIC using industry-standard design techniques.
• Driving optimisation for timing, hardware resources, throughput and power efficiency.
• Supporting verification activities, including the development of UVM-based testbenches.
• Developing and improving engineering methodologies, processes and design techniques.
• Exploring opportunities to integrate AI tools into engineering workflows.
• Supporting technical discussions with customers during presales and product development.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog

SystemVerilog

FPGA

ASIC

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Timing optimisation

Power optimization

UVM

Tools

EDA tools

UVM

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is partnering with an innovative communications technology company to hire an RTL Design Team Lead. You will lead a hardware design team and stay closely involved in the technical development and delivery of complex IP for FPGA and ASIC platforms.

You'll work with Algorithm, System Architecture and Software teams to shape decisions and translate requirements into high-performance hardware solutions.