CPU Design Director

Essential Skills and Experience
 Significant experience of RTL design for complex ASIC products ​
 Strong hardware development experience, spanning specification, design, verification, implementation, and delivery.
 Ability to make trade-offs between power, performance and area appropriately to meet the requirements of the product
 Experience in all stages of the design cycle: initial concept, specification, implementation and testing, documentation and support
 Experience producing specifications and documentation describing complex designs
 Ability to work under time-scale pressure and meet aggressive targets without compromising on quality
 Understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture
 Experience in leading a team of highly skilled engineers
 Excellent communication skills at technical, senior management, and customer levels
 Highly proactive, with strong multi-tasking skills
 Strong planning skills
 Proficiency in problem solving
 Practical, organised, and analytical approach to work
 Excellent communication and networking skills
 Enthusiasm, drive and the ability to schedule own workload and plan tasks
 Significant technical team leadership experience, including planning, managing tasks and driving delivery to specification and schedule
 Experience of mentoring and coaching
 Experience of technical interaction with customers
 Highly proficient in spoken and written English

Desirable Skills and Experience
 Practical experience of working on microprocessor designs
 Proficiency in scripting languages, e.g. Perl/TCL/Python
 Knowledge of assembly language (preferably Arm), C/C++ and/or hardware verification languages e.g. SystemVerilog, Specman ‘e’
 Line management experience
 Experience working and communicating with cross-site teams  Understanding of functional safety principles and experience of designer functional safety features