Senior SoC FE Lead

Cortex Consultants LLC; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cortex Consultants LLC is seeking a highly accomplished Senior SoC Front End Designer to drive sophisticated SoC design initiatives for global semiconductor developments. Based in India, this role requires strong technical vision and collaboration with international teams on advanced nodes. The ideal candidate will have a Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering and extensive experience in Digital ASIC architecture.

This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute significantly to the development of complex SoCs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Digital ASIC architecture.
• Strong interest in SoC architecture and SoC-level chip design.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Capture design requirements of complex SoCs with SoC Architects.
• Support technical discussions with customers.
• Write design requirements and functional specifications.
• Perform calculations for computation throughput and memory.
• Collaborate with software and firmware teams.

Skills

VHDL

Verilog

SystemC

C/C++/SystemC/Python

Requirements management

Functional safety (ISO 26262)

Excellent communication skills

Education

Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

ARM Cortex A720 class processors

Network-on-Chip architectures

PCIe Gen5/6

Job description

Senior SoC Front End

FULL-TIME

15+ Years of exp

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior SoC FE Design to drive highly sophisticated SoC design for our global semiconductor Custom Silicon design initiatives in advanced semiconductor nodes 8nm, 5nm, 3nm. This role centers on technical vision, engineering depth, and cross-regional collaboration, executed jointly by teams in India and Europe. The ideal candidate is a proven design leader capable of guiding distributed engineering organizations toward innovation, best-in-class quality, and first-pass silicon success.

You will play a key role in our projects and interact with the design, verification and physical design team as well as with international customers. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies for our highly complex SoC and image pipeline development projects.

Responsibilities

• Capture design requirements of complex SoCs with SoC Architects, including technical evaluation of technology, internal and external IP fulfilling customer requirements across automotive, industrial, and commercial applications.
• Support technical discussions with customers for alignment of requirements, tracking functionality and power-performance-area restrictions; assist Sales in technical discussions during project acquisition.
• Write design requirements and functional top-level specifications with the team of architects; accompany the complete lifecycle with direct contact to Design, Verification, Backend, and Test teams and close interaction with project management.
• Perform detailed calculations to specify computation throughput, memory bandwidth, latency, and evaluate performance/area/power trade-offs.
• Collaborate with software and firmware teams to ensure the ASIC meets required performance goals.

About You

You are highly motivated, not afraid of taking responsibility, and a team player. You have excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, are an efficient professional, and enjoy helping the organization grow.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or comparable.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Digital ASIC architecture and proficiency in VHDL, Verilog, SystemC.
• Experience working in a customer-oriented, self-reliant, extremely reliable and structured manner; able to collaborate with international development teams.
• Strong interest in SoC architecture and SoC-level chip design with good understanding of hardware/software partitioning and knowledge of microprocessors, interconnect, memory architectures, and HSIO IPs.
• In-depth IP knowledge for ARM Cortex A720 class processors, Network-on-Chip architectures such as Architecis FlexNoC, LPDDR5/6, PCIe Gen5/6, UCIe IP (Synopsys, Cadence), MIPI.
• Deep knowledge of requirements management is an advantage.
• Knowledge of functional safety (ISO 26262) is an advantage.
• Skills in C/C++/SystemC/Python are beneficial.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Our Company

Tessolve Semiconductors is a venture of Hero Elektronix, part of the $5B Hero Group. It is a Design and Test Engineering Service Company providing end-to-end solutions from Product Engineering, Software, Hardware, Wireless, Automotive, and Embedded Solutions. With over 3800 employees worldwide, Tessolve has engineering and sales presences in India, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, UK, Europe, and China.