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