Responsibilities will include:

• Working with a New Product Development team to drive product development activities from concept through production release.
• Developing new analog powercircuits from concept through layout.
• Improving design methodologies to ensure first-pass success and cost-effective solutions.
• Mentoring less-experienced designers.

Requirements:

• MSEE and 5+ years experience in switching regulator design.
• General analog circuit design knowledge and semiconductor device physics and processing background.
• Good communication skills & the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to manage priorities and time in a dynamic start-up work environment.

Responsibilities will include:

• Generating test plans and defining test methodologies for new products.
• Develop characterization and production test software and hardware on Automated Test Equipment.
• Work closely with Design, Product and Applications engineers to debug, characterize and release new products to production.
• Support production test requirements by maintaining test programs and debugging production test issues as they arise.
• Work closely with Product & Quality Engineering on yield enhancement efforts; test cost reductions and failure analysis.

Requirements:

• BSEE or equivalent.
• 5+ years of semiconductor test experience developing test H/W and S/W for mixed signal power management products.
• Knowledge of all phases of product development including hands-on first silicon debug, characterization testing and production release.
• Good communication skills & the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to manage priorities and time in a dynamic start-up work environment.

Responsibilities will include:

• Working with a New Product Development team to drive product development activities from concept through to production release.
• Characterize New Product device features and performance to match requirements.
• Generate tools and methodologies for device analysis to support functional debug and yield analysis.
• Cost reduction by continuous yield enhancement and manufacturing flow improvement.
• Perform Failure Analysis on customer returned parts to identify root cause and implement corrective actions.

Requirements:

• BSEE and 5+ years experience.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong analog circuit design knowledge and semiconductor device physics and processing background.
• Experience with semiconductor defect analysis and SEM characterization techniques, lab equipment and interface programming, data analysis and statistical process techniques.
• Knowledge of all phases of product development including hands-on first silicon debug, characterization testing and production release to offshore test location.
• Good communication skills & the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to manage priorities and time in a dynamic start-up work environment.

Job Duties:

• Work as part of cross-functional product development team to:
     - Help Marketing define products with lead customers
     - Validate/debug new silicon
     - Write IC datasheets
     - Design/debug standard and custom evaluation kits including users guides
  
• Support sales with comprehensive design-in tools and phone, email and onsite support as required (up to 25% travel)
• Characterize New Productdevice features and performance to match requirements.
• Write application notes and articles
• Mentor one or more junior engineers (management opportunities available as the company grows
• Wear many “hats” in a fast-paced and successful start-up environment

Desired Qualifications:

• BSEE (MSEE preferred) and 5+ years applications experience with switch-mode power management IC’s
• Strong power system design skills including electrical, PCB layout, thermal design, and magnetics
• Hands-on IC debug, validation and characterization experience
• Competency with basic and advanced bench test equipment (experience with automated bench test environment such as Labview™ a plus)
• Experience with simulation tools (PSPICE)
• Proficiency with PC and MS-Office software (especially Excel data reporting)
• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively with external and internal customers
• Ability to manage priorities and be flexible in a dynamic start-up environment