SOC Design Lead / SOC Architect

Job description

Brand new, and cutting edge project, working for an exciting scale-up in the semiconductor space - to be based full-time from Scotland.

Salary is circa £100k (PLUS AMAZING ADDITIONAL PACKAGE)

I am looking for a SOC Chip design Lead / SOC Architect to be responsible for the end to end design, set-up, architecture defintion, defintion of the whole process & design flow and RTL design of new chips.

You will be the lead designer / architect with end to end responsiblity for delivering the full chip to delivery at the fab.

Must have experience:

• Degree / Masters / PhD in electronics / micro-electronics, physics or similar field
• 10-20 years' experience of full chip design and delivery / as a chip lead / or SOC architect
• Digital / AMS, analog-mixed-signal IP
• End to end chip / SOC delivery experience
• ASIC & FPGA - verilog, system verilog, VHDL
• ADC / DAC - digital - analog interfaces
• Functional verification - system verilog - IP, system, sub-system, block, top level experience
• Creation of test-benches
• detailed knowledge of complex tape-out processes, and interactions with fabrication plants
• Full digital design flow, from RTL2GDS
• SOC design, integration, system design, system architecure
• power management / PMIC / ultra-low power / optimisation & performance
• synthesis / HLS / STA
• physical implementation / physical design

Bonus / nice to have skills

• Complex cores / processors / CPUs etc.
• PLLs / filter design
• RF-SOC
• DSP, signal processing
• Flash memory - DDR / HBM / high-bandwith memory / cache chorency
• clock, timing constraints

This position is ONLY available to engineers with full UK working rights

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Scotland

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

12-01-2026

Profession type

Design / Fashion

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English