Job Description Summary:
Draper is looking for an energetic, service minded ASIC project leader, who enjoys helping others to succeed by providing team members and clients with motivation and support in a positive and professional work environment. We are seeking a highly motivated individual who will challenge teammates to achieve execution goals, while maintaining strong working relationships within Draper and with our customers in support of mission goals.
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities
Design and simulate circuits at transistor-level to implement architecture and requirement specifications
Contribute to system-level design
Optimize hardware designs for performance, power, and cost
Evaluate the hardware feasibility of complex algorithms and requirements
Independently contribute to complex chip architectures and designs
Independently drive solutions to complex problems - develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements
Contribute to business development and proposal activities
Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers
Perform or guide physical layout, including floor-planning, and simulate circuits using extracted parasitics.
Perform other duties as assigned
Skills/Abilities
Proficiency in integrated circuit design
Understanding of integrated circuits, semiconductors, and general computer architecture
Ability to write detailed design specifications
Ability to manage small technical teams
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent mathematical skills
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to prioritize tasks
Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals
Education
Experience
Additional Job Description:
Preferred Qualifications
- Lead a cross functional team on the execution and development of custom ASICs that support project and mission goals
- Work with wafer fabrication, assembly & test sites to guarantee schedule, cost, and quality
- Provide clear direction to both internal team and external support organizations like device fabrication and assembly and test sites
- Drive and motivate team members critical to the flawless execution of each ASIC and project
- Provide weekly and monthly updates to program management on status of projects, explaining the issues facing a project
- Interact with customers in support of project status, key milestones, and deliveries. This includes samples deliveries, wafer lot progress, assembly, and testing
- Drive reliability and characterization of integrated circuits to ensure they meet the requirement specifications and manufacturing requirements
- Work with failure analysis (FA) to determine root cause of any reliability and qualification failures
- Maintain thorough and up-to-date project schedules with all related milestones
- Develop and implement Qualification plans
- Communicate weekly to management on status of each project
- Effectively coordinate material logistics and shipment/assembly/test prioritization
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and set realistic plans based on required tasks with available resources
- Ability to effectively coordinate and lead geographically diverse development teams on projects that include design, silicon fabrications, test development, qualification and production ramp
- Ability to provide clear direction to both internal teams and external support organizations like device fabrication and assembly sites
- Knowledge of device packaging and wafer fabrication process
- Knowledge of reliability requirements and characterization methodology using statistical analysis
- Ability to work in a team environment and understand cross-functional team dynamics
- Ability to work with customers to align project schedules with customers' key milestones
- Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
- Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
- Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
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Job Location - City:
Cambridge
Job Location - State:
Massachusetts
Job Location - Postal Code:
The US base salary range for this full-time position is
$95,000.00 - $245,000.00
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