Director - RTL Design

Location: Bangalore (On-site)
Joining Preference: Immediate Joiners Only
Experience: 15-20+ years of industry experience
About the Role
Chipsilica is looking for a Technical Director – RTL Design to lead customer-facing technical engagements for next-generation high-speed interface and advanced SoC programs.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. Once our business team initiates a customer engagement, the Technical Director takes ownership of the technical discussions, builds customer confidence, defines the execution strategy, assembles the engineering team, and drives the project to successful delivery.
We are looking for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering problems - not someone who has moved away from hands-on technical work.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
Lead customer technical discussions after the initial business engagement.
Present Chipsilica's technical capabilities to customer architects and engineering leaders.
Understand customer requirements and convert them into executable technical plans.
Define RTL architecture and implementation strategies for complex digital systems.
Remain hands-on in RTL design, debugging, reviews, and technical problem-solving whenever required.
Drive protocol-level discussions across multiple layers of high-speed interfaces.
Project Ownership
Take complete ownership of customer projects from technical qualification to delivery.
Build and lead project teams based on delivery requirements.
Allocate engineering resources and provide technical direction.
Conduct architecture and design reviews.
Drive execution until successful project completion.
Act as the primary technical escalation point for customers.
Team Leadership
Mentor RTL engineers across architecture, implementation, and protocol understanding.
Establish engineering best practices and design quality standards.
Build technically strong teams capable of handling advanced-node SoC programs.
Required Experience
15-20+ years of RTL Design experience in semiconductor design.
Strong experience in high-speed interface protocols and complex digital architectures.
Hands-on expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL development.
Experience leading customer-facing technical engagements.
Proven experience delivering IP, subsystem, or SoC-level projects.
Strong debugging and architecture skills.
Preferred Protocol Experience
Experience in one or more of the following is preferred:
PCIe (Strong Advantage)
UCIe
CXL
DDR4/DDR5
HBM
UALink
NoC
Other high-speed interconnect technologies
Typical Project Exposure
The Technical Director will lead programs involving:
High-Speed Interface IP Development
Custom IP Development
IP Integration
Subsystem Development
SoC Integration
AI Infrastructure SoCs
Datacenter and Server Chips
Advanced-node programs (3nm, 2nm, and beyond)
What We're Looking For
Strong protocol knowledge with the ability to understand multiple layers of a protocol stack.
Confidence in representing the company during customer technical evaluations.
Ability to build and lead engineering teams around customer programs.
Hands-on technical leadership rather than management-only experience.
Excellent technical communication and mentoring skills.
Ownership mindset with a strong focus on customer success.
Joining Requirement
Immediate joiners are strongly preferred.
If you're passionate about leading cutting-edge high-speed interface programs, building world-class engineering teams, and delivering next-generation silicon for AI servers, datacenters, and advanced computing platforms, we'd love to connect.

Work arrangement
Hybrid