Digital Front-End Lead

Role & responsibilities

We are looking for a highly skilled Digital Front-End Lead to drive and contribute to chip-level architecture, RTL design, and verification, while managing and mentoring a high-performing team. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise and leadership capabilities, with a strong background in SoC design, RTL coding, verification planning, and project management.

This role requires a proactive approach to continuous improvement and collaboration across disciplines. We are specifically seeking a Verification Leader with design exposure, capable of ensuring robust verification strategies while contributing to architectural and design decisions.

* Target products are not FPGA-based.*

* Experience with MCU products featuring ARM cores is preferred. *

Key Skills - Priority Level (1-5)

• Chip Level Verification 5
• Chip-Level Use Case Understanding
• Verification Plan Formulation, Management, and Review
• Extraction of verification items and formulation of verification program stimulus specifications
• Building Dynamic & Static Verification Environments
• Gate-Level Simulation with Back-Annotated Delays
• Management -5
• Leadership Experience, Project Planning, Collaboration with Backend and Analog Team
• DFE Team Management
• Documentation
• Continuous Improvement Suggestions
• Functional Safety Standards
• RTL Design & Quality Verification - 4
• RTL Quality Control
• RTL Coding Skills (Verilog HDL/System Verilog)
• RTL Quality Check Execution; EDA Tools for RTL Quality Checks
• Architecture Design – 3
• Chip-Level System Architecture Design
• Block-level microarchitecture design
• Constraint Creation and Synthesis (SDC/STA) - 3
• Timing and synthesis constraints
• Synthesis trial and STA report confirmation
• Chip Level Assembly – 3
• Chip-Level Assembly Using EDA Tools
• Power System Design- 3
• Multi-Power Domain Design
• Power System Model Design
• Testing, On-Board Evaluation, and Mass Production Support- 3
• Evaluation Flow (Actual Machine Bring-up, ATE Pattern Generation)
• Evaluation Specifications (test items such as SCAN, BIST, and cutout tests)
• Power Estimate- 2
• Power Analysis Using EDA Tools and Design Feedback
• Power Estimation During Feasibility Stage

Preferred candidate profile