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Hardware Design Manager

Spectrum It Recruitment 🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

Lead and grow the RTL and digital hardware engineering organisation, providing technical direction across ASIC and FPGA development while recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineers. Improve engineering processes and design flows, introduce automation and AI-assisted tools, collaborate with architects and senior stakeholders, and ensure high-quality hardware delivery aligned with the technology and product roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the RTL and digital hardware engineering organisation, providing technical direction across ASIC and FPGA development while recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineers. Improve engineering processes and design flows, introduce automation and AI-assisted tools, collaborate with architects and senior stakeholders, and ensure high-quality hardware delivery aligned with the technology and product roadmap.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have proven experience leading and growing digital hardware or RTL engineering teams, with strong ASIC and/or FPGA expertise across architecture, RTL design, and verification. They should be able to recruit and develop talent, understand hardware development methodologies and design flows, and balance technical leadership with people development and delivery.

Key Skills

RTL design leadership Digital hardware engineering ASIC development FPGA development Hardware architecture Verification methodologies Team recruitment and mentoring Design flow optimization Automation tools AI‑assisted design tools Process improvement Stakeholder collaboration Technical roadmap alignment High‑quality hardware delivery Project management

About Spectrum It Recruitment

Established in 2008, Spectrum IT is a leading Software and Technology specific recruitment agency, providing permanent and contract IT resource for businesses. Our team of around 30 employees are based on the University of Southampton Science Park, a key hub for technology on the South Coast. Our specialist consultants help organisations overcome their specific recruitment challenges, from agile start-ups and SMEs to global multinationals. Whether you’re seeking to place single hires or build large software development project teams, our specialist recruiters utilise their deep industry knowledge and extensive candidate database to source the required talent.

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