We measure our success by customer satisfaction and the quality of the solutions, services and designs we deliver.
Our approach is to develop long-term relationships with our customers and encourage strong partnerships with our suppliers, while providing meaningful and challenging work for our staff in a friendly, professional working environment.
We have over 170 staff, with the head office at Milton Park, near Oxford, UK.
There are also design centres located in:
- UK Bristol and Sheffield
- Brazil Porto Alegre and Campinas, São Paulo
- India Bangalore
What we Believe In
• Listen well and demonstrate humility
• Trust colleagues, assume good intent
• Collaborate across boundaries
• Seek out diverse thought and background
• Show empathy for others
Our Culture
Work Life Balance
Our Vision
- To be the premier application specific chipmaker in Europe.
- Through our flexibility, engineering excellence and quality focus, EnSilica strives to increase our customers’ competitiveness, through the use of custom silicon.
- To create a profitable, value creating company based on the design & supply of digital, analog and mixed signal IC’s.
- To be considered a great company by our key stakeholders – customers, suppliers and staff.
- To build value over the coming years that will deliver financial benefit to all staff through a stock-option scheme.
Our Values
- To treat our employees and contract staff with dignity, respect and equality.
- We understand the importance of diversity as a driver for innovation and success.
- To recognise and reward the contributions and accomplishments of our employees.
- To provide a dynamic and enjoyable working environment, where staff have the opportunity to work on varied, interesting and challenging projects.
- To continually strive for improvement through training and learning.
Information for Recruitment Agencies
EnSilica only works with agencies who are on our preferred supplier list, and we do not accept unsolicited CVs or sales calls. Agencies should, therefore, not contact us or send CVs on a speculative basis.
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Senior Digital Design Engineer - EN-042798-HR
Job Title: Senior Digital Design Engineer
Location: Bristol
Reporting to: Director of SoC Digital Design
Contract Type: Full time permanent position
Salary: Salary range £50k to £90k depending on experience
Benefits UK: Private Medical healthcare, salary sacrifice pension scheme (matched up to 5%), 26 days annual leave, life assurance, discretionary annual bonus, share option scheme, hybrid and flexible working
As part of our ongoing expansion, EnSilica need to strengthen our ASIC Digital Design team. We are looking for bright candidates who have an enthusiasm and aptitude for working in this vital part of our business.
You will have a strong academic record, around 10 years’ experience in industry working on ASIC developments and IP design, with at least one successful project as Technical Lead.
You will possess a broad understanding of the IC design flow, strong ‘hands-on’ technical skills together with excellent communication skills and a desire to work in a customer facing organisation.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Take full-flow ownership of all stages of the digital specification to RTL design flow, for complex ASIC blocks or full-chip
- Work closely with our customers and other EnSilica teams to deliver projects on-time and to the required quality levels
- Setup, run and maintain EDA tool flows, as needed, for each stage of the FE design flow
- Keep up to date with all aspects of advanced ASIC FE design methodology and best-practise to ensure that EnSilica’s expertise and service quality are at their top for each customer project
Key Skills and Experience
Essential
- 1st or 2.1 Electronics, Physics or relevant subject from a Tier 1 group University
- Around 10 years’ experience working in IC Development with a deep understanding of all aspects of ASIC FE design, from specification to RTL, and with a basic understanding of RTL to tape out flow
- Specific expertise in the following technical areas :
- RTL Design (VHDL or Verilog)
- Functional verification – ideally a good knowledge of System Verilog and the use of techniques such as assertions and coverage driven verification
- SoC knowledge – including the selection and integration of 3rd party IPs
- Sound knowledge of SoC interconnect protocols, at least the Amba AHB plus one of the Amba AXI (AXI3, AXI4, AXI4-Lite, ACE, AXI5, AXI5-Lite,..)
- ASIC implementation skills (synthesis, DFT, timing closure)
- Experience to lead one complex IP design and/or full ASIC design, from specification to full RTL
Desirable
- Knowledge of UPF syntax to describe power intent
- Knowledge of chip level communication interfaces is a significant advantage (I2C, SPI, UART, eCPRI, PCIe, …)
Personality
- Strong communication and presentation skills, which enable you to interface easily and effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in an international environment.
- You think holistically, are creative, and have a quick grasp, which enables you to maintain an overview in complex situations and make well-founded decisions.
- You are a problem-solver and work independently and with drive to achieve results.
- The ability to engage all members of a diverse team towards a shared objective.
- A team player, ideally with experience collaborating within the international, cross-functional environments.
- Happy to take ownership of issues and provide suitable solutions.
Position Specifics
This role is hybrid, our guideline is for 3 days in the office.
Some UK and international travel may be required.
Applicants must have the right to live and work in UK.
Brazil Opportunities
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Principal Verification Engineer - EN-025704-HR
Job Title – Principal Verification Engineer
Location – Bangalore, India
Reporting to – Vice President – SoC Engineering
Contract Type – Full time permanent position
Salary – Salary range £70k to £85k depending on experience
Summary
Established in 2001, EnSilica is a publicly listed company (LON:ENSI), designing industry leading, application specific integrated circuit chips (ASIC), for customers ranging from start-ups to blue chip companies, in industries including: automotive, medical, space and mobile technology companies. With its head office on Milton Park, Oxfordshire, and other offices in Bristol, Sheffield, Brazil (Porto Alegre) and India (Bangalore), EnSilica currently employs more than 160 people.
We are looking for a very experienced verification engineer who can not only strengthen the team through their technical expertise but also bring leadership and grow the verification business within EnSilica.
You will have a good understanding of different methodologies, but particularly SystemVerilog and UVM. Faced with a new project, you will have the ability to quickly assimilate the verification challenge and help define an effective and pragmatic verification strategy and gain the support of the end-customer for the chosen approach. You will need to understand the importance of monitoring key metrics to assess progress and predict the end-point for the verification process.
Responsibilities
- Verification specialist working on customer and internal projects – often as the verification lead.
- Provide high-class verification support to a wide range of projects using a range of advanced verification techniques including constrained random, coverage driven, assertion-based and formal methods.
- You would also be responsible for the development of a comprehensive verification strategy and plan, along with the architecting and development of the complete test environment.
- Active participation in the verification community to drive the introduction of new and effective techniques within our business – to help solve the verification challenges faced by our customers.
- Close working with our customers to build a strong relationship that results in repeat business.
Education / Key Skills / Experience
- BE/ME in Electronics /Computer Science 1 group University.
- 15+ years’ experience in industry working on a variety of verification projects.
- Extensive knowledge of verification methodologies particularly UVM and SystemVerilog.
- Strong experience in the specification and implementation of verification infrastructures, test benches, models, assertions and functional tests in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
- Familiarity with constrained random verification methodologies, code coverage analysis and running regression tests.
- Strong VHDL/Verilog RTL.
- Very good understanding of modern verification flows and methodologies and able to influence the EnSilica one toward continuous improvement
- Ideally you will be familiar with both Mentor Questa and Cadence Incisive tool and ideally some exposure to low power verification using UPF based flows
- A good understanding of functional safety and quality processes, to achieve ISO26262 or similar standard’s compliances will be considered as a strong plus
Personality
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong and effective presentation skills, able to operate at multiple levels including senior management.
- Self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent customer service and has a ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Happy to take ownership of problems and provide suitable solutions.
- Creative problem solving.
- Team player.
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment.
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