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 Paolo
- 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.
UK Opportunities
Principal Verification Engineer - EN-025704-HR
Job Title – Principal Verification Engineer
Location – Milton Park (Abingdon), Sheffield, Bristol
Reporting to – Vice President – SoC Engineering
Contract Type – Full time permanent position
Salary – Salary range £70-£95k 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
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
- 1st or 2.1 Electronics, Physics or Computer Science from a Tier 1 group University.
- 10+ 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.
Position Specifics
This role is flexible, some UK and international travel may be required.
Applicants must have the right to live and work in UK.
ASIC Project Manager - BU Design Services - EN-039826-HR
Job Title – ASIC Project Manager
Location – Milton Park (Abingdon) or Bristol
Reporting to – Vice President of Design Services
Contract Type – Full time permanent position
Salary – Salary range is £70-90k, 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.
We are seeking an IC Project Manager to manage ASIC development projects for our Design Services Business Unit (BU). You should have ASIC development experience either in Front End (FE) design, verification, mixed-signal design or Physical Implementation and have, or desires a move into, a project management role.
Responsibilities
- Take charge of customer ASIC projects. Various engagement models are possible including block-level RTL to GDS2, block level specification design, verification and physical implementation, to the full ASIC life-cycle from specification to tape-out (GDS2 delivery)
- Manage project setup including negotiating resources with Ensilica VP of SoC Engineering, planning schedules, risk analysis, quality plan, reporting structures, baseline budget etc.
- Be responsible for tracking all defined tasks through regular meetings/reports from the engineering team and updating the project plan / status report
- Ensure that any exceptions to the original plan are reviewed and corrective actions identified to bring the project back on track or appropriate changes made to the plan
- Track projects spend and revenues throughout the project and provide inputs into the business unit and finance department and provide ongoing profitability projections against budget
- Maintenance of Action Log and timely closure of actions
- Report project status to the customer
- Ensure that the project is fully aligned with the ISO9001:2015 QMS and all required review meetings and quality records are generated and stored in the appropriate location.
- Chair all key review meetings to ensure that the requirements of the review have been completed
- Provide leadership and motivation to the whole team through strong communication, professional behaviour and mutual respect
- Release deliverables to the customer that are under the authority of the Project Manager
- Support the Business Unit to plan and cost Change Requests and new opportunities to support the delivery of a winning proposal
- Contribute to internal process improvements to improve overall efficiency
Education, Key Skills and Experience
Essential
- Previous, “hands-on” silicon development experience as senior or principal engineer in a functional area such as FE design, mixed-signal design, verification or physical implementation.
- Experience working with ASIC and VLSI design flows and their inter dependencies: the candidate should be able to have high level technical discussions with the tech leads, related to IC development schedules, cost or quality aspects
- Excellent people management skills enabling management of both the customer and the team
- Able to monitor and control the project development guided by well-defined metrics
- Experience working on multi-site projects and hybrid working in a dynamic engineering environment
- Master degree in Electronics Engineering or related discipline
Desirable
- Experience in running silicon projects from concept to production release
- 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
Position Specifics
This role is hybrid, our guideline is for 3 days in the office.
Some occasional travel may be required to another UK site (Bristol, Milton Park, Abingdon or Sheffield).
Applicants must have the right to live and work in UK.
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