Work With Us!

We are looking to expand our team!

Would you be happy to work independently in a fully remote team distributed around the world?

You would be working as an independent contractor/freelancer for an Austrian company, from wherever you are. Our team meetings usually take place between 4pm and 6pm Vienna time (CET/CEST), otherwise you can choose to work whenever you want.

Contact office@yosyshq.com if you are interested in working with us.

Project manager and team coordinator 

You might know YosysHQ from our many Open Source EDA Projects. We are the maintainers of Yosys and the accompanying Open Source EDA ecosystem. Our team is pushing the boundaries of EDA in interesting and unexpected ways, and making these tools and methodologies available for professionals, hobbyists and academics alike.

We offer off-the-shelf software packages that seamlessly integrate our tools in industry design environments and provide support and training for users of our software packages. We also offer custom development of individual features and entire flows based on our software components, and support and training for your developers working on custom projects based on our Open Source work.

We are around 12 people, with a small leadership group who also work on sales and business development. With the upcoming investment in the semiconductor industry we expect to have an exciting couple of years.

YosysHQ is recruiting a project manager to support delivery of technical projects, who will also support our distributed team. 

Your project management work will cover the full project lifecycle, from writing proposals, through delivery, to reporting and wrapping up. 

You will be customer-facing, working with our sales and leadership folks to sell our projects, and acting as principal client contact during project delivery. You will take responsibility for ensuring everyone involved with a project, inside YosysHQ and at customer and partner organisations, has the information they need, and a good working relationship with others involved. You ensure that customers have confidence in YosysHQ’s delivery and quality of work.  You will be comfortable communicating with our clients at all levels, including executives, project managers, engineers and technologists. 

You will be managing diverse, highly technical, project teams, with multiple projects underway at any one time. You will provide time and cost estimates for potential and new projects to satisfy the client’s requirements, and then deliver the project effectively against those. You will identify and manage the risks in each project, and be comfortable managing change and adapting plans as necessary. You might expect to manage a variety of projects, such as 1-2 larger projects running for months or years with 2-3 people working on each; plus a few small projects taking just days or weeks, with one main person and others helping out.

You will support YosysHQ’s organisational development, identifying and sharing learnings from projects and activities, and supporting the leadership team in their work. 

You will be a good people manager, with emotional intelligence, who is able to get the best from a team of specialists. You will support YosysHQ colleagues, proactively spotting obstacles and risks, and finding ways to smooth the path and make things better.  Ideally, we are looking for someone who can manage around half of the technical team (around 6 people), as well as managing several projects, and playing an active role in helping YosysHQ to thrive.

You will be familiar with the common processes and tools of project management, and ideally have experience with several approaches to project management, so that you can manage our varied projects appropriately. You will be managing highly technical engineering development projects and so will need a good technical background, and ideally have an engineering design background in electronic hardware or embedded software.

This is a flexible remote role which could be part time (2-4 days per week). You will ideally be within +/-1 hour of CET. 

Essential:

• Experience managing technical or engineering projects, and working with engineers and technical specialists

• Excellent written and verbal English skills, including technical writing such as project proposals, plans and reports

• Experience writing clear and informative reports for clients and project funders

• Highly organised, able to coordinate multiple activities, and keep on top of deadlines and routines

• Team coordination experience, including facilitating meetings, making sure colleagues have the information they need, and keeping activities on track

• Experience in organisations or companies with little formal structure and processes

• Able to reach and understand a commercial contract for development work

• Digitally savvy, familiar with collaboration tools such as Google calendar, Slack, and online project management apps, and able to use these independently and confidently

Nice to have:

• Experience supporting the growth of a company or team, including identifying opportunities for new processes or tools to help the team, testing and introducing these

• People management, especially of technical specialists 

• Experience collaborating with sales and business development teams

• Experience with remote and distributed teams

• Experience with technologies relevant to YosysHQ

Notes on all job roles

• YosysHQ has a flat pay hierarchy, where everyone earns the same rate: currently 4500€/month for full time contract work (approx. 29€/h). As such, the only parameter that can be negotiated is the days per week.

• As YosysHQ works with US government contractors, you must not be living in a country subject to sanctions or export restrictions, or banned from performing work for the US government for other reasons.