Aion Silicon is looking for a Project Technical Lead to drive technical excellence and ensure the successful delivery of cutting-edge SoC and ASIC projects. In this pivotal role, you'll work closely with Project Managers and Bid Leads to define and implement robust technical strategies, guide multidisciplinary engineering teams, and safeguard project quality, timelines, and risks — all the way to first-time silicon. If you're a proven leader with a passion for innovation, collaboration, and delivering high-quality engineering outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.
Working closely with the Project Manager and the Bid Lead, responsible for the setting of the project technical delivery philosophy to enable efficient and successful project execution of agreed technical requirements while supporting the project schedule and budget requirements.
Ensuring a strong technical systems engineering approach delivering against the engineering project delivery process.
Ensures all technical teams on the project deliver the agreed technical requirements, the agreed technical timeline, with the required quality, and through the appropriate communication channels, thereby safeguarding the technical lifecycle from risks and issues yielding first time silicon.
Supports and where appropriate initiates technical discussion and reviews with the customer/internal teams on project requirements, execution and milestone signoff.
Responsible for ensuring a strong technical systems engineering approach to project delivery
Ensures all teams deliver the agreed technical requirements, the agreed technical timeline, with the required quality, and through the appropriate communication channels, thereby safeguarding the technical lifecycle from risks and issues
Ensuring project goals and schedules are cascaded and clearly understood by the engineering team
Being, and ensuring project technical team, are risk and change alert and escalating new technical risks and opportunities for CCNs
Ensuring the inter-functional team interfaces are managed to ensure alignment on expected deliverables, quality and schedule
Driving managers and engineers to execute tasks in line with required quality and agreed schedules for the assigned discipline
Day to day management, task assignment and prioritisation for project engineers in the assigned discipline
Work with Project Manager to identify resource requirements (engineers and infrastructure), risks, issues, and solutions and to recommend priorities to deliver to schedule
Makes and enforces technical decisions in the assigned discipline for the project.
Assist with creating/updating project plans where necessary
Demonstrable experience of technically leading SoC and ASIC projects across multiple discplines (e.g. Architecture, Front-end Design, Physical Design, Verification & DfT)
Experience of clearly reporting on issues, risks and KPIs
coaching, empowering, delegating and developing teams of people to deliver on projects
Proven technical people management experience in a similar role
Able to be Risk and Change alert
Ability to work under pressure with solid organisational and creative problem-solving skills
Self-organisation and ability to respond to changing priorities quickly with excellent time management skills