The Corporate Vice President of ASIC development will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the vision and mission of our ASIC division. This role requires a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of IP development SOC design and productization process of semiconductor chips. We develop a diversity of ASICs ranging from ultralow cost/high volume to high reliability/complex/low volume to serve a broad spectrum of Flash market. The ideal candidate will lead a global team of 500 engineers ensuring the efficient timely and highquality delivery of ASIC functions across multiple sites. This role will report into SVP/GM of Flash business at Western Digital
We are looking for a candidate who can
- Articulate strategic intent of the organization and tailor business strategy to providing right solutions.
- Manage and work with wider cross functional stakeholders in product development technology product management Procurement IP vendors foundry services and operations for ASIC division delivery.
- Provide technical direction and manage tactical aspects of multiple ASIC projects on a daytoday basis.
- Motivate and transform the organization with bestinclass processes and workflows to reduce ASIC design cycle times in line with best in class industry metrics
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership to global ASIC teams aligning departmental goals with broader objectives of business unit.
- Identify and implement industry best practices tools and methodologies to enhance the productivity and quality of the ASIC development process.
- Driving the development of cuttingedge ASIC design ensuring they meet or exceed market requirements and industry standards. Evaluate WD ASIC IP portfolio and set the direction for develop internally vs procure externally. Develop and maintain a long term view of IP and SOC roadmap in line with industry trends and standard bodies.
- Raise the awareness of competitiveness of our ASIC organization compared to the industry.
- Understand the legacy of successful ASIC organization and champion the transformation by introducing and integrating modern development techniques and workflow.
- Foster a cohesive team culture promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement encouraging team to explore new ideas and technologies Establish a baseline and set targets for each functional ASIC team to drive continuous improvement.
- Oversee the endtoend development of ASIC products including IP development SOC design and productization meeting the committed budget and schedule. Set operational reviews of ASIC functions on consistent basis to ensure proper level of details are being tracked and managed for successful delivery.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to ensure seamless integration of ASICs into final products. Manage Foundry EDA tools vendor IP vendors relationships to ensure smooth deliveries into the design and product cycle
- Lead mentor and develop a highperforming global team of ASIC engineers and designers. Drive talent acquisition and retention efforts to build a world class ASIC development team.
Qualifications :
- Masters or PHD in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field
- Experience in a senior role within a semiconductor product company.
- Minimum of 20 years experience in ASIC development with a focus on IP SOC design and productization with last 5 years in Sr management role
- Demonstrated delivery of largescale ASIC projects and productization
- Deep technical expertise and hands on experience in ASIC design and development with EDA workflows including RTL design digital IP integration verification HW emulation DFT and physical design.
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence and inspire crossfunctional and global teams.
- Experienced working in fast paced innovative environment with focus on delivering high quality products.
Additional Information :
Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our nondiscrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.
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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12.14.2024 (3 months from posting) although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.
Compensation & Benefits Details
- An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance you may be eligible to participate in our annual LongTerm Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to Western Digitals Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; taxadvantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D legal plan pet insurance critical illness accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program employee stock purchase plan and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime