Digital Design Team Lead

Overview

As Principal Design Team Leader, you will guide a senior digital design team while remaining hands-on in RTL development. You’ll drive complex ASIC/FPGA projects, shape technical direction and design methodologies, and partner with architecture, software and verification teams. This role blends leadership with technical ownership to deliver high-performance hardware on schedule. You’ll influence processes and future product development while growing a growing hardware team and engaging with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of digital design engineers
• Provide technical leadership across complex ASIC and FPGA development projects
• Remain hands on with RTL design and contribute to architectural and implementation decisions
• Take ownership of project delivery, ensuring designs meet performance, quality and schedule requirements
• Drive optimisation across timing, power, area and throughput
• Work closely with architecture, verification, software and other engineering disciplines
• Help shape design methodologies, development processes and engineering best practices
• Translate higher level product requirements into clear technical objectives for the hardware team
• Support technical discussions with customers and senior stakeholders when required
• Identify opportunities to improve development efficiency through new tools, methodologies and emerging technologies

Key requirements

• Strong commercial experience in RTL design using Verilog and/or SystemVerilog
• Previous line management or people management experience within an engineering environment
• Experience leading technical projects and coordinating engineers towards successful delivery
• Experience working with industry standard simulation and synthesis tools
• The ability to balance hands on technical work with leadership and team development
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work with both engineers and senior stakeholders

• strong communication
• leadership
• collaboration
• RTL design with Verilog and/or SystemVerilog
• ASIC and FPGA development
• simulation and synthesis tools

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