Senior RFIC Design Engineer- Acton, MA

Senior RFIC Design Engineer- Acton, MA

Job Responsibilities

We are currently engaged on a search for designers with a combination of multiple skills beginning with proven excellence in high-speed Analog CMOS design for high-volume production and including technical leadership, project management and mentoring capabilities. The company wants an analytic, creative thinker capable of and comfortable with outside-the-box solutions. Responsibilities will include: Analog RFIC circuit design, contributing to the company knowledge base on design for manufacturing techniques, small team leadership.

Required Qualifications

§         An M.S. and/or Ph.D. in EE or related discipline

§         Approximately 10 years directly related design experience in design of high-speed Analog/mixed signal CMOS products including design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and design for verification (DFV) for high-volume production

§         Proven ability in the development of algorithms to solve unique problems

§         Strong mathematical theory and application knowledge

§         Demonstrated technical leadership in the form of patents and papers and conference presentations

§         Original research in Analog CMOS architectures

§         Experience designing ICs in 130nm, 65nm, or 45nm

§         Proven track record of leadership by example while providing solutions to problems in the development of novel electronics

§         A consistent track record of increasing responsibility to design and lead the development of complex products

§         Recognized by subordinates, peers, and management as someone who technologists, marketing, and application staff seek out for input and advice

Desired Qualifications

§         Knowledge of or experience in the design of transceivers, converters or other high-speed devices

§         Knowledge of microwave to millimeter wave bands

§         PCI, ADSL or other communications technologies

APPLY DIRECTLY: Ross@hightechnh.com

 

Image Algorithm Developer in NH

 

Senior Development Engineer

Job Description

Function:
Coached by and reporting to the Development Manager, you will start in the Nashua development team as a Senior Development Engineer to assure development and standardisation of new products by bringing specific technical expertises such as video process algorithms, image and color processing algorithms, imaging system characterization, and color science to the development projects. You will join a team working on their fourth generation of automotive camera products to create products that enhance driver safety and comfort. An emerging market, camera products are quickly becoming a large part of how cars are driven as well as enabling active safety systems that save the lives of drivers, passengers and pedestrians. You will develop and maintain professional business partnerships with our internal and external customers that aim to define a product meeting the market requirement and resulting in a mutually profitable relationship.

Technical Competencies:
Specific area of expertise Optics/Image Processing: Having a deep knowledge of technologies relevant to image and video processing as well as measurement of image quality and up to date on the related new technology developments.
Characterization/Validation: Able to contribute to the characterization plan in order to validate/analyze development activities.
Project Management Techniques: Having thorough knowledge on Project Management Techniques.
Mathematical models: Able to generate mathematical models related to the specific expertise that provide insight in the system behavior.
Conceptual knowledge: Able to translate the customer needs into a system level solution.
Documentation: Deliver the appropriate documents to the customer and to the internal organization to keep tracking of the internal milestones, decisions of findings. Display a professional presentation skill.
Customer awareness: Dealing with complaints and clients in the right way, communicating decisions in a correct and assertive way, thinking and speaking empathetically with the client.

Job Requirements

Requirements: - Master degree w/ technical background with more than 10 years of related experience as technical expert.
- PhD is highly desired.
- Fluently in English is a must. Knowledge of any major European / Asian language is a strong asset.
- Working experience in integrating different cultural backgrounds.
- Working experience in International Industry.
- Working experience in the automotive Industry.
- Medium Travel Intensity.
- Sound Project Management skills (budget, planning, project team lead).
- Working experience with virtual teams.
- Must have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States without any time or employer-related restrictions.

Tech companies desperate for "rockstarninja engineers"

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- With launch costs low and valuations soaring, startups are multiplying like rabbits in tech hot zones like New York and Silicon Valley.

That has sparked a talent war over the industry's scarcest resource: skilled engineers and developers.

"There are a lot of ideas, but to actually do it you need someone to build it," says Daniel Gruneberg, who co-founded Zozi in San Francisco last year. The daily-deal site sells discounted activities like bicycling tours and wine-tasting trips. As an added lure for employees, Zozi offers some of its deals up for free to its staff -- and to the people who refer them.

"There is definitely a strain on engineering and developer hiring, especially mobile developers," says Gowalla founder Josh Williams, who relies on mobile coding gurus to enhance his company's location-based check-in application.

"The boom in app development has left a big need here all around," he says. "Those positions still take us the longest to fill."

Everyone is in the hunt. On any given day, Twitter is filled with tweets advertising open spots for "rockstar" developers. IPhone app developer Bump went one better, soliciting by tweet for "rockstarninja" engineers and designers.

Entrepreneur Francisco Hui even launched a business venture to cater to the constant recruiters: His Interactees shirts let those who are hiring literally wear their job ad. Need a UI designer? There's a t-shirt for that.

The battlefield

The startups are competing for talent not just with each other, but also against established companies with much deeper pockets. A study by consulting firm BDO found that 46% of top U.S. technology companies plan to increase their employee headcount in 2011.

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which recently gave its workers an across-the-board 10% pay raise, often starts new computer-science college grads off at salaries that top $100,000 -- and it's willing to pay more if there's a competing offer from rivals like Facebook or Twitter. It's also on a hiring tear, looking to add at least 6,000 workers to its ranks this year.

At SEOmoz, a Seattle startup that sells SEO tools, engineers are so prized that the company offers a $12,000 reward for referrals that lead to a hire.

"Things have gotten harder," says CEO Rand Fishkin. "Prices are going up, competition is heating up and there's a much lower supply of engineers on the market."

With the job market so fierce, companies often find themselves covetously eying their neighbors' engineers. Poaching is a time-honored tech industry practice -- one that some businesses go to extremes to fend off. A full 15% of Facebook's staff previously worked at Google.

"Good talent is always employed," says Shannon Callahan, who recruits for companies backed by venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz.

That can lead to some sticky situations. "As CEO, one generally doesn't have many true friends in business and raiding your friend's company is a sure way to lose one," Andreessen-Horowitz partner Ben Horowitz wrote last month in a blog post on the ethics of poaching.

As one New York entrepreneur recently put it, right after wrapping up a $1 million funding round: "Hide your designers, hide your developers, because we're recruiting everybody out there."

3 new positions with my client in southern NH

These are three freshly created positions with my client in southern, NH. Please contact me directly if you are interested in hearing more or seeing a full job description.

1: The firmware/software engineer will mainly do, on a day-to-day basis, SOFTWARE

- write code for microcontrollers and develop "RF tuning" algorithm

- write code to control RF test equipment (spectrum analyzer, vector analyzer)

- develop graphic interfaces

- needs to be very responsive

2: The electronics engineer will mainly do, on a day-to-day basis, HARDWARE

- develop boards with microcontrollers, DC/DC converters, ADC, from schematic to board layout and test in the lab

- develop test setups

- write firmware and software to control the microprocessors and other equipment

For both of these positions, familiarity with wireless market (maily GSM, CDMA, UMTS) is important

3: Product Engineer/Test Engineer
-Talk with contractors and suppliers
-Define the most cost effective solutions for test
- Coordinate with departments to make sure things are getting done on schedule
- Must have a good understanding of Silicon
(This is best described as a "Product Engineer" with Test experience.