ASIC Digital Design, Sr Manager
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Job description
You are an experiencedASIC Digital Design Managerwithstrong handson expertise in USB digital design and architecture, capable ofleading a team while remaining deeply engaged in technical execution. You bring extensive experience defining and implementingRTL and microarchitecture for complex, highspeed interface IP, combined with proven teamlead and peoplemanagement skills.
You setting technical direction with your team, making architectural tradeoffs, and driving design decisions . You are comfortable working directly with RTL, reviewing detailed design implementations, and guiding engineers through complex debug and convergence challenges. Your background includes exposure to USB or similar protocols.
As a experienced leader, you foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence. You mentor engineers through handson guidance and design reviews, communicate clearly across disciplines, and work closely with crossfunctional teams to deliverhighquality, siliconproven USB IP.
What You'll Be Doing:
Leading and managing a team of ASIC digital design engineers, providing daytoday technical guidance, mentoring, and performance management.
- OwningUSB digital architecture and RTL design execution, remaining handson while leading design efforts at block, subsystem, and IPintegration levels.
- Defining microarchitecture, design specifications, and implementation approaches for highperformance, powerefficient, and scalable PCIe designs.
- Leading endtoend digital design activities, including architecture definition, RTL development, debug, design convergence, and postsilicon support.
- Planning and prioritizing design work, balancing handson technical involvement with team execution, schedules, and resource needs.
- Driving design quality through rigorous design reviews, coding standards, and RTL maintainability practices.
- Collaborating closely with verification, validation teams to ensure smooth IP integration and silicon success.
- Coaching and developing engineers through handson technical mentoring, design feedback, and career development discussions.
- Promoting a culture of technical ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.
- Identifying opportunities to improve AI- driven design methodologies, workflows, and productivity, while keeping focus on design execution.
- Communicating design status, technical risks, and tradeoffs effectively to senior management and crossfunctional stakeholders.
The Impact You Will Have:
- Deliverindustryleading USB digital IPwith high performance, robustness, and scalability.
- Drive strong architectural and design execution for USB IP used by leading customers.
- Improve design quality, predictability, and execution efficiency through strong technical leadership.
- Build and lead a highly capable ASIC digital design team with deep USB expertise.
- Strengthen Synopsys' position as a leader in highspeed interface IP across commercial, enterprise, and automotive markets.
Requirements
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Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with 12+ years of experience, or Master's degree (MSEE) with 10+ years.
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Demonstrated experience as ateam lead or people managerin an ASIC digital design environment.
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Extensive handson ASIC RTL design experience, with direct ownership of complex digital designs.
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Deep expertise in USB digital design and architecture or similar protocols.
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Strong understanding of ASIC design fundamentals including clocking, resets, lowpower techniques, and design for test.
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Experience with AI-driven tools, flows and methodologies. Familiarity with scripting languages (Perl, TCL, Python) for design automation is a plus.