Tech Firm offers solution to engineer shortage with New Outsourced Design Team Service

Sondrel (AIM: SND), a leading provider of complex chips for major tech brands, has launched a new Outsourced Design Teams (ODT) service to address the growing challenge of engineer shortages.

The service offers businesses a flexible solution, allowing them to access skilled engineers for periods ranging from weeks to months, with team sizes tailored to specific project needs.

“Finding skilled design and verification engineers is incredibly tough right now,” said Paul Martin, Director of Field Engineering and Customer Technology at Sondrel. “These shortages can put entire chip projects at risk of delays, leading to significant financial consequences. Hiring through agencies involves assembling and managing an unproven team, which takes time and resources.”

Sondrel’s ODT service offers a simpler approach.

Paul Martin, Director of Field Engineering and Customer Technology at Sondrel, explained, “It’s really difficult finding skilled engineers at the moment especially for Design and Verification. A whole chip project could be at risk of falling behind schedule due to a skills shortage that could have severe financial repercussions. You could use an agency and assemble a team but that needs a lot of people and management time as they are an unproven team. We have much simpler option for customers. Sondrel’s Outsourced Design Teams are drawn from our pool of over 100 skilled and experienced engineers that have worked for us for years and, more importantly, worked together in teams so that they can hit the ground running from day one. We hand pick the members of the team so that it exactly meets the customer’s skills requirement and manage them so that expectations are met, milestones are achieved, and all aspects of people management are handled by us so that the customer can focus on the other aspects of the project.”

Sondrel’s secure remote working infrastructure enables them to assemble geographically diverse teams, drawing from their global network of design centers. This ensures access to the most suitable engineers for each project.

“Importantly,” added Martin, “as one of Europe’s leading design and supply companies we are renowned for our digital design capabilities built up over the past twenty years so customers know we always deliver. Effectively they are tapping into the Sondrel design DNA.”