DESIGN ENGINEERING DIRECTOR - CORK OR DUBLIN, IRELAND

Client:

Our client a leading Multinational Semiconductor EDA Software provider requires Design Engineering Director based in either Cork or Dublin City, Ireland.

Role:

As a Design Engineering Director you will lead and develop new and exciting ultra-high speed controller IP developments. Previous IEEE 802.3 ethernet experience desired but not essential. 

You will be technically leading the ethernet IP and subsystem design/verification team as we develop solutions for the latest 802.3 200G,400G,800G and 1.6T ethernet standards. 

In addition to controller IP developments, there is a parallel requirement to collaborate with the Cadence high speed SerDes teams in order to produce full ethernet subsystems and solutions for our customers.

Requirements:

• Previous experience developing and building teams to realize business goals, proving line management and support to complete hiring needs.
• Extensive protocol knowledge in key protocols such as DDR, PCIe, CXL, UCIe, Ethernet, Flash Storage etc.
• Ability to architect SOC/NOC based solutions, within a team, providing direction and leadership to extended team.
• Extensive RTL implementation knowledge, including full design flow knowledge from Marketing requirements document (MRD) to completing GDSII based solution.
• Extensive design flow knowledge so we can provide the most efficient flows to meet business goals, including Synthesis, Constraint development, LINT, Clock domain crossing (CDC)
• Extensive knowledge in Metric Driven Verification (MDV) and Formal techniques, which are a nice to have.
• Knowledge of Hardware and emulation techniques are a nice to have.
• Knowledge of how to best utilize cloud-based computing solutions, configuration management and associated farms to again provide most efficient solutions.

Education:

• Honors Degree BSc and or MSc in Electronics Computer Science course or equivalent.

• Minimum 20 Years industry experience.         
• Ability to manage a technical team of up to 12 people and drive teams towards a set of defined goals and roadmaps.
• Ability to assess product development and work with marketing to define roadmap that satisfies customers’ needs.
• Ability to report to and advise upper management.
• Ability to travel and support internal strategic business development meetings and external customer-based meetings.