VLSI Frontend Services Practice Head / VLSI Director of Engineering

Job Role -

VLSI Front-end Services Practice Head / VLSI - Director Engineering

Experience - 

15+ yrs

Work Location - 

Hyderabad / Bangalore / Mumbai / Pune

Work Mode - 

Work from office (5 days)

Role Description -

• Drive VLSI services strategy, offering, capabilities, and talent creation and scaling
• Own and meet the VLSI services business growth
• Collaborate with academia, partners and talent teams to grow VLSI talent
• Create differentiated design methodologies, offerings and solution demos to showcase at industry events
• Collaborate with Presales and Sales teams to develop compelling customer propositions and sales collateral
• Ability to engage confidently at senior levels within customer organizations
• Review and ensure smooth delivery of VLSI services engagement
• Utilize industry trends, competitive insights to enhance sales strategies and provide input to offering owners.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client facing skills
• Excellent communication and analytical skills

Required Technical Skillset -

• Strong VLSI Engineering Leadership experience
• Expert in VLSI Front-end engineering
• Ability to own and drive VLSI offerings and talent creation

Must Have -

• Create differentiated VLSI Services offerings, capabilities, and talent to exponentially grow VLSI services business.
• Ability to engage with customer design managers in technical discussions and secure design wins
• Create strong VLSI technical teams through training/upskilling and focused hiring.
• Mentor the VLSI team to ensure their skills are continuously advanced & aligned to customer/industry needs.
• Build strong customer relationships and deliver VLSI services projects.
• Create differentiated proposals to win new projects.
• Work within inhouse resourcing teams and external partner ecosystem to staff and ramp-up VLSI team based on customer needs
• Strong technical expertise in ASIC frontend development: logic design & verification (including UVM), power specification (e.g. UPF), timing specifications (SDC), formal verification and emulation
• Hands-on expertise with commercial EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence or Siemens
• Intimate familiarity with Verilog and standard design formats (LEF, DEF, SPEF, etc.)

Good To Have -

1. Good industry connects with EDA tool companies, foundries, and Tier 1 semiconductor companies
2. Exposure to ASIC-package codesign a plus.
3. Create and leverage VLSI partner ecosystem for expanding offerings and talent
4. Stay updated on semiconductor industry trends and competitor activities to refine the strategy accordingly and gain customer mindshare.
5. VLSI services Strategy, Business Plans, and roadmaps
6. SoW and MSA reviews