Thursday, September 11, 2008

Hybrid Designer for PA and Front End Modules- San Jose, CA

Description
Join this team focused on developing leading-edge solutions for 4th Generation Wireless Products. A team consists of a Project Manger, IC designer(s), Hybrid designer(s), and technician(s).

Develop innovative Solutions for Multi-Band and Multi-Mode Front End Modules (FEMs) for the following standards: GSM, EDGE, W-CDMA, LTE, and WiMAX. These modules are designed to be 50 Ohms utilizing a mixture of lumped, distributed, and on chip matching. You will be responsible for the RF design of the module that could utilize FBAR, SAW, E-pHEMT, D-pHEMT, InGaP HBT, BiFET, CMOS, PCB, or LTCC technologies. You will own all design and integration aspects of the module and need to work with the RFIC designers to determine the optimal partitioning of the technologies to be used for this approach. The challenge is to meet or exceed the Cost, Performance, Size, and Schedule constraints for the solution. This process will require a balance of simulation tools such as Agilent’s ADS, the Cadence Suite, Momentum or Ansoft’s HFSS, and hands-on testing and integration work in the lab.

Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
* Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on RF/Microwaves
* Five years of experience in RF PA design and related fields
* Working knowledge of Semiconductor Technologies used in Power Amplifiers
* Proficient with CAD tools such as ADS, Momentum, HFSS, Cadence Suite
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, project-oriented, team environment
* Demonstrated ability to work independently, and create and meet schedules
* Strong Communication Skills

Desired Requirements:
* Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on RF/Microwaves
* At least Five years of Analog RF, PA, or FEM Design Experience
* Experience with RF filter design in Single and Multi-Layer Substrates
* At least Five year of PA RFIC design to lead the IC design function
* Experience with Wireless System Design for Cellular or Data Markets
* Hybrid Chip-On-Board Design and Prototyping Experience
* Proficient in use and Programming of RF Test Equipment
* Experience taking a product to Volumes greater than 500k/month

IC Layout Engineer - San Jose, CA

Description
You will be doing substrate design in FBAR filters and mmW active circuits 2/3 or your time. In this capacity you will be working as part of a product design team integrating IC die into final products by designing the substrate for the product on which the IC die resides. The other 1/3 of your time you will be doing IC tape-out by working closely with IC design teams to assist with DRC & LVS, perform layout cleanup, gather layout cells and compose reticle arrays, organize mask review meetings, create final GDS data, generate mask submission documentation, then interface with internal Reticle Service Team to submit mask job.

Qualifications
• B.A. or B.S in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics
• 10+ years of IC layout & tape-out experience in an RF/Microwave/mmWave R&D environment.
• Strong Cadence Virtuoso Layout and Assura or DIVA DRC/LVS skills.
• Strong LINUX and Windows user-level skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Positive attitude, with a desire to learn and contribute in a fast paced global team.

R&D mmwave Manager - San Jose, CA

Description
Our Client's Wireless Semiconductor Division is a world leader in providing RF through mm-wave component solutions. We are looking for a MMIC design manger to continue our success.

The position is a hands-on technical and administrative decision making manager. A strong understanding of GaAs PHEMT monolithic integrated circuit design and manufacture is required including performance, fabrication, and layout. The position also requires detailed knowledge of the commercial 6 to 86 GHz marketplace including point-to-point radio, ground satellite, fiber optics, and instrumentation applications. The position requires working with a small staff of MMIC designers and making performance, economic, and schedule decisions.

The position is for a design manager of full-custom mixed-signal RF and microwave integrated circuits. Design experience is required in one or more areas including:

- 6-20GHz, 20-33GHz, 37-45GHz, 60-86GHz bands
- Amplifiers including Low Noise, Linear, Power, buffers, drivers, trans-impedance, differential, and traveling wave.
- Frequency Converters including; up-converters, down-converters, frequency multipliers, pre-scalars.
- Surface Mount Packaging including; DC to 50GHz, Chips scale, Laminate, LCP, 3D EM modeling.

The breadth and variety of circuit design opportunities extends far beyond this short list. WSD provides catalog and custom RFIC/MMIC designs to the major microwave point-to-point radio manufacturers in the world. You will work with marketing to specify requirements and manage the implementation of design, test, prototype sampling.. In addition, you will supervise the transfer of designs into manufacturing including assembly partners, BOM, production test limits, quality tests, and data sheets.


Qualifications
A Masters Degree (MSEE) and 10 years industry experience or Doctorate Degree with 5 years experience. The candidate should have experience managing small groups of designers and making difficult technical decisions. The ideal candidate will have designed and released MMIC products from 6 to 50GHz including simulation (ADS and/or Microwave Office), layout (Cadence), test (s-parameters, load-pull, noise), and high volume (thousands per month) production.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

UI Desginer - Mountain View, CA

Our client, located in California’s Silicon Valley, is a cutting edge technology company that combines the opportunities, technical challenges and culture of a start-up with the stability of a larger company. We are the industry leader in our field. This technology crawls large scale, time critical data that is often used in highly publicized legal cases. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, top American law firms and major government agencies. We are growing very rapidly so we have many exciting career and growth opportunities!


Job Description
Key member of our client's elite engineering team, you will design and develop the user interface for a new electronic discovery application that is of key strategic importance for our client's long term plans. Working with a small team focused on building the new application, you will be expected to collaborate with product management to design the user interface and work independently in the implementation.
Required Skills and Experience:
• 5-7 years of experience in designing and developing web browser based application
• Expert level experience with DHTML and CSS
• Strong expertise in graphics and web development tools such as Photoshop
• Experience in dynamic websites using AJAX and client-side Javascript
• Experience in clean modular design
• Very good understanding of cross-browser development and usability issues
• Experience in XML, Javascript development and Flash is a plus
• Good understanding of software development practices and experienced in delivering and supporting production quality software
• Proven ability to work in small groups under tight project deadlines, understand workflows and requirements and communicate effectively with back-end developers
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Systems Engineer - San Jose, CA

Objective:
We are looking for a person to conceive, design and prototype input and interface devices (e.g. mice, joysticks, touchscreens) for mobile electronics. This will require a broad set of technical skills, combined with creativity and the ability to rapidly prototype and test concepts.

Job Deliverables
The Ideal Candidate will be able to begin with a clean sheet of paper and build an electrical sensory system to acquire, process and report data to host. The system will require the candidate to:
- Build an analog sensing circuit that acquires raw data from an array of electrodes.
- Convert raw analog input to digital data and processes it using filters and algorithms and makes a decision if a sensory event has taken place
- Report sensory status to a host device

Skills
- Strong background in building prototype analog and digital circuits required
- Algorithm development to make sensory decisions required
- Background in sensors (especially capacitive) or mobile consumer electronics strongly preferred
- Software/firmware experience (C, C++, Assembly, Matlab, etc.)
- Work with ASIC team to convert prototype circuitry into an IC
- PCB design
- Familiar with basic measurement techniques (Logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc.) and signal analysis
- Comfortable with electro-mechanical design
- Board level troubleshooting and testing
- System level ESD, EMI analysis and testing
- Familiar with embedded communication protocols like I2C, SPI a plus
- Human/machine interaction experience a plus

Other
- Self-motivated
- Hands on approach and capabilities
- Creative
- Strong teamwork and leadership skills- function as technical lead and mentor junior engineers
- Comfortable engaging/presenting technical information to customers


Education
- Masters degree in EE, physics, or ME with 5-7+ years relevant experience

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Hybrid Designer for PA and Front End Modules- San Jose, CA

Description

Join this team focused on developing leading-edge solutions for 4th Generation Wireless Products. A team consists of a Project Manger, IC designer(s), Hybrid designer(s), and technician(s).

Develop innovative Solutions for Multi-Band and Multi-Mode Front End Modules (FEMs) for the following standards: GSM, EDGE, W-CDMA, LTE, and WiMAX. These modules are designed to be 50 Ohms utilizing a mixture of lumped, distributed, and on chip matching. You will be responsible for the RF design of the module that could utilize FBAR, SAW, E-pHEMT, D-pHEMT, InGaP HBT, BiFET, CMOS, PCB, or LTCC technologies. You will own all design and integration aspects of the module and need to work with the RFIC designers to determine the optimal partitioning of the technologies to be used for this approach. The challenge is to meet or exceed the Cost, Performance, Size, and Schedule constraints for the solution. This process will require a balance of simulation tools such as Agilent’s ADS, the Cadence Suite, Momentum or Ansoft’s HFSS, and hands-on testing and integration work in the lab.


Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:
* Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on RF/Microwaves
* Five years of experience in RF PA design and related fields
* Working knowledge of Semiconductor Technologies used in Power Amplifiers
* Proficient with CAD tools such as ADS, Momentum, HFSS, Cadence Suite
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, project-oriented, team environment
* Demonstrated ability to work independently, and create and meet schedules
* Strong Communication Skills

Desired Requirements:
* Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on RF/Microwaves
* At least Five years of Analog RF, PA, or FEM Design Experience
* Experience with RF filter design in Single and Multi-Layer Substrates
* At least Five year of PA RFIC design to lead the IC design function
* Experience with Wireless System Design for Cellular or Data Markets
* Hybrid Chip-On-Board Design and Prototyping Experience
* Proficient in use and Programming of RF Test Equipment
* Experience taking a product to Volumes greater than 500k/month

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Data Base Engineer - Mountain View, CA

Our client, located in California’s Silicon Valley, is a cutting edge technology company that combines the opportunities, technical challenges and culture of a start-up with the stability of a larger company. We are the industry leader in our field. This technology crawls large scale, time critical data that is often used in highly publicized legal cases. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, top American law firms and major government agencies. We are growing very rapidly so we have many exciting career and growth opportunities!


Description:
Candidate will be responsible for development and maintenance of Stratify database schema and applications. Candidate should have knowledge of database technologies with software applications along with good understanding of database tools that support them in tuning data model for performance.


Required Skills and Experience:
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
• Minimum 4 years of working experience with database technologies
• Strong DBMS principles and SQL programming skills
• Hands on experience in design and building of database applications
• Open to new technologies and eager to learn
• Implementation of stored procedures, functions, views and ad-hoc queries for database applications
• Experience with testing methodologies
• Unit testing of database objects
• Trouble shooting skills and fixing bugs in the existing SQL code base in a timely manner
• Support services team in crisis mode
Preferred Skills and Experience
• Working experience with SQL server 2005
• Understanding of SQL Common Language Runtime (CLR) programming
• Working experience on distributed databases
• Understanding the concepts of DB performance, HA (high availability) and scalability
Personal Qualities:
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Ability to handle multi-tasking
• Self starter, willing to take initiative in solving difficult problems