Technical Design Manager

Job description

We are looking for an accomplished people leader with a proven track record in managing cross-functional teams to deliver low-power RF/mixed-signal SoCs into high-volume markets on time, budget, and specifications. Reporting directly to the VP Development, you will:

• Drive company-wide methodology for efficient and effective SoC development and integration across analog, RF, digital, and SW design and design-for-test (DfT), pre-silicon verification, post-silicon validation and production test. Work with product and SW quality representatives to ensure and formalize state-of-the-art design and test processes.
• Leverage industry-standard design flow expertise and define and implement requirements management and traceability throughout the product development flow
• Manage cross-organizational functional teams (EDA & DevOps, digital physical design, custom layout, etc.) to meet short- and long-term company objectives
• Manage cross-organizational IP & Platform teams, define and own the company IP roadmap.
• Define and manage central resources, IP and platforms across a broad range of product lines. Coordinate project schedules with project managers in charge of respective products with potentially competing project schedules
• Lead, hire and develop your people and raise the bar to meet the increasing challenges in our industry and build leading-edge products with aggressive time-to-market

Key Responsibilities

• Manage team leaders covering a total of 30-35 FTEs with a focus on individual growth and empowerment
• Animate cross-organizational methodology expert groups to take our design methodologies to the next level and ensure quality of design reviews and milestones deliverables across the organization through expert groups and lessons learned processes
• Coordinate with business units to define next-generation platform and technology roadmap
• Work with internal and external IP suppliers to ensure best-in-class IP availability for integration
• Run cross-functional engineering meetings
• Dive into and take ownership of crucial design issues
• Lead design reviews
• Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality
• Deliver year-on-year performance, power, and form factor improvements
• Drive analysis to determine performance targets