Senior Manager - Memory Technology

Job Title

Senior Manager - Memory Technology

Role Summary

Lead the Memory Technology team responsible for Nordic's memory IP portfolio, delivering embedded memory solutions from concept through production. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, project ownership and people management across a hybrid on-site/remote team and requires close collaboration with R&D and external technology partners.

Experience Level

Senior-level engineering leadership. No specific years of experience stated.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical strategy, team leadership and delivery of memory IP that integrates with Nordic's SoC designs.

• Lead, coach and develop a distributed engineering team and ensure skills and capacity match product strategy.
• Define and own the technical strategy and development roadmap for the memory IP portfolio.
• Collect and consolidate requirements from R&D and translate them into development plans and delivery schedules.
• Drive projects from initiation through tape-out, prototype approval and transfer to production.
• Provide technical approval at major milestones (project approval, tape-out, prototype approval, production transfer).
• Ensure memory IP deliverables integrate with Nordic's SoC design flows and meet customer requirements.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with R&D and external technology partners.

Requirements

Must-have technical and leadership qualifications; preferred items noted.

• Substantial experience in semiconductor memory development and embedded memory technologies with a track record of delivering memory IP to production silicon.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, including distributed or hybrid teams.
• Deep knowledge of memory architecture, circuit design and device physics, including bitcell arrays, sense amplifiers, timing/self-timed paths, low-voltage operation, retention and power modes, redundancy/repair, ECC and memory BIST.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills; able to move between detailed technical discussion and executive-level summaries.
• Delivery-focused with the discipline to manage multiple parallel commitments to completion.
• Preferred: formal line-management experience and prior commercial responsibility for technology deliverables.

Education Requirements

MSc or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Computer Engineering or a comparable field.

About the Company

Company: Nordic Semiconductor

Headquarters: Trondheim, Norway

Norwegian fabless semiconductor company that designs low-power wireless connectivity solutions and system-on-chips (SoCs) for IoT, including Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, Zigbee, LTE-M/NB-IoT, Wi‑Fi, and cloud services (nRF Cloud).