ASIC Project Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead multiple ASIC development programmes from spec through tape-out and production, collaborating with cross-disciplinary engineering teams and customers to ensure successful delivery. You’ll work across automotive, quantum, sensing, industrial and FPGA-based systems, gaining broad exposure to technical challenges. The position blends hands-on engineering context with strategic project leadership in a growing, customer-focused silicon solutions company. You will stay technically engaged while shaping complex chip development programmes. This is a hybrid, on-site role in Oxfordshire with a strong impact on delivery quality and programme outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive package
• bonus
• share options
• hybrid work arrangement (3 days on-site)

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple custom ASIC developments from specification to tape-out and production
• Coordinate across digital design, verification, FPGA, mixed-signal, analog and system engineering
• Manage customer relationships, scope, schedules, budgets, risks and change requests
• Lead project reviews, track technical progress and ensure milestones are met
• Collaborate with technical leads to challenge assumptions and address risks
• Support projects across automotive, quantum, sensing and industrial electronics
• Ensure delivery aligns with quality processes and customer expectations

Key requirements

• Strong technical background in ASIC development, with early career in digital design, verification, FPGA, SoC or analog IC design
• Ability to discuss technical topics credibly with engineering teams and challenge decisions when needed
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams in semiconductor or deep-tech environments
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills
• Collaborative, proactive approach with ability to manage multiple complex projects
• Experience delivering diverse technology programmes and maintaining technical engagement

• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• proactiveness
• ASIC development
• digital design
• verification

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