Director of Silicon Product & Test Engineering

Axelera AI • bristol, england • Posted June 30, 2026

About the Role

Position Overview

You'll own Silicon Product Engineering and our Bristol validation lab end-to-end — from tapeout through NPI to volume production — and lead the teams that get us there. The NPI Engineering Manager and Lab Manager report to you; you report to the executive team and partner closely with Design, Sales, and our external manufacturing ecosystem.

This is a director-level leadership role. It needs someone with the technical depth to make sound ATE, NPI and OSAT calls and earn senior engineers' respect, plus the commercial judgement to own budgets, headcount, and the day-to-day running of two technical departments as we scale across concurrent chip programs.

Key responsibilities

Product engineering & strategy

  • The product engineering roadmap across all silicon programs, from tapeout planning to high-volume manufacturing
  • ATE strategy and major NPI decisions: build-vs-buy, test-coverage trade-offs, OSAT selectio...