Job Description

Digital IP Design Director

Location: Bangalore, India
Company: onsemi

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

onsemi is seeking a Digital IP Design Director to lead the development of digital datapath and subsystem IP for next-generation CMOS image sensors and the onsemi Treo platform This role will manage a growing team of digital design and verification engineers, drive technical execution, and help shape the future of scalable, automotive‑grade digital IP.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on digital design expertise, people leadership, and a forward-looking mindset, including curiosity around how AI and automation can improve digital design productivity and cycle time

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Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of digital datapath IP for CMOS image sensors, including high‑performance, low‑power pipelines.
• Drive development of core platform digital-on-top and subsystem IP for the onsemi Treo platform
• Ensure IP meets automotive quality, safety, and reliability requirements (e.g., robustness, configurability, reuse).
• Partner closely with analog, mixed-signal, system, firmware, and software teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Provide technical guidance on RTL quality, low-power design, clocking/reset strategies, and design-for-test

Team & People Management

• Lead and mentor a team of digital IP designers and verification engineers
• Own technical direction, staffing plans, performance management, and career development for the team.
• Actively grow and scale the team in Bangalore, including hiring, onboarding, and building a strong engineering culture.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across design and verification disciplines.

Execution & Program Ownership

• Own IP execution plans, schedules, and deliverables, ensuring predictable, high-quality releases.
• Drive alignment between IP roadmaps and product/platform needs.
• Ensure strong design/verification methodology, including coverage, regressions, and signoff criteria.
• Participate in technical reviews, risk assessment, and post-silicon learning.

Innovation & Productivity

• Stay curious and engaged with emerging trends, especially AI/ML-driven approaches to:
  • RTL generation and review
  • Verification acceleration
  • Debug productivity
  • Design-space exploration
• Champion adoption of tools and processes that reduce cycle time and improve first-time-right outcomes

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Required Qualifications

• 20+ years of overall experience in digital IC design and/or verification
• 3+ years of proven people management or technical leadership experience.
• Strong background in digital IP or SoC development, from architecture through signoff.
• Experience working on Automotive IP or automotive semiconductor products
• Hands-on experience with:
  • RTL design (SystemVerilog / Verilog)
  • Digital verification methodologies (UVM or equivalent)
  • Low-power design techniques
  • IP reuse and configurability
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical efforts
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across teams and geographies.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with CMOS image sensor digital pipelines or imaging-related IP.
• Familiarity with platform or subsystem-level IP development
• Exposure to functional safety concepts relevant to automotive products.
• Experience driving or adopting EDA automation, scripting, or AI-assisted workflows
• Prior experience scaling or building a new team.

#LI-RG1 onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

More details about our company benefits can be found here:

https://www.onsemi.com/careers/career-benefits