VLSI Architect Lead

Job Title: VLSI Architect Lead 

Location: Plano, TX (hybrid) 

Company Overview: 

At Iontra, our breakthrough battery charging solution is born from 10+ years of combined experience working with demanding energy storage applications, from the technical and commercial challenges of leading heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturing to the complexity and extreme demands of space going and planetary exploration vehicles. Together our team has innovated to answer the needs of our customers for a plug and play solution that improves the performance of today’s lithium batteries. Our solution can be implemented quickly and inexpensively to improve customer experiences with any existing Lithium-ion battery-powered products. For more information on our latest news, visit:  

https://iontra.com/iontra-closes-67-million-series-b-following-additional-29-million-investment/ 

Role Summary: 

In this role, we are looking for a Senior IC architect to join and lead the Architecture in our IP & IC Design Teams. This is a hybrid role that will require some on-site presence at our facility in Plano, TX; and offers the ability to work from home when not required to be in the office. The candidate should be willing to adapt to methodologies and tools used by Iontra like Jira/Confluence among others. 

You’ll love this job if you: 

• Are driven to be part of a team doing big things to help our planet. 
• Aspire to work with a successful veteran startup management team. 
• Are a self-starter and always find ways to get your work done and help team members. 
• Are an organized, detail-oriented person being very good at time management. 
• Are determined and resilient to keep things moving forward at a startup pace. 
• Are assertive and able to influence and partner with the team to get things done. 
• Enjoy new challenges and change. 

What You’ll Be Doing: 

• Define IC architecture working with a cross functional team for our first IC. This should bring together our CPU, with custom accelerators while optimizing power, area & performance. 
• Drive high level architecture specifications and functional specifications for key areas of the IC. 

• Lead Architecture/Software/Hardware/Security co-design and collaboration on feature set. 
• Cross functional role, working with IC and IP Design teams including Software, PD, DFT, RTL & DV while understanding customer issues and delivering solutions. 
• Capture requirements, drive specification, conduct technical reviews and support customer documentation efforts. 
• Patent innovative aspects of architecture design 
• Participate and guide RTL design team, verification teams, DFT teams to ensure the architecture laid out is implemented and validated correctly. 
• Participate and guide Software teams on utilizing the architecture as per the intent. 
• Create systems to compute bandwidth and latency requirements of the IC and work with Design Verification to ensure they get validated pre-silicon. 

Requirements

You’ll Need These Qualifications: 

• B.S/M.S. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics Engineering. 
• 10+ years of experience in architecture, design or design verification. 
• Experience in Architecture definition across various planes like Clocks, Resets, Power -Sequencing & Management, Interrupts, Interconnects, Boot, Security, System Performance. 
• Related Experience in Software to drive IC architecture that is software friendly. 
• Good understanding of the ASIC design cycle and interception points on architecture. 
• Excellent written, verbal and negotiation skills. 
• Comfortable Solving and communicating issues at all levels of architecture definition from IP to IC to Software to System levels. 
• Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills while being a strong team player.

Benefits

Benefits and Compensation: 

Salary Range: $140k - $180k (salary is based on education, experience, skillset, and market value). 

We offer the following benefits package: 

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) 
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) 
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability 
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays) 
• 401(k) Retirement Plan plus company match 
• Company Shares Plan 

Iontra has an equal employment opportunity (EEO)