Integral Wave Technologies

Principal Analog Architect

What you’ll be doing:
As an integral member of our innovation team, you’ll get up close and personal with our IC design, product-marketing and power systems engineers, not to mention valued customers who are pretty shrewd customers. Your job? Turn their “never been satisfied” frowns upside down with breakthrough system architectures and, ultimately, blocks and circuits. You’ll need to be resourceful. You’ll have to solve issues relating to power conversion, control systems (analog and digital), data conversion, transistor-level IC design, IC layout, and packaging…and, of course, cost. You’ll have to deliver meaningful products with measurable value for a medley of needs. Then you’ll have to take a day off.

Must you? You must:
• Possess a MSEE (or Ph.D) and 7+ years of Analog/Mixed-Signal design experience.
• Have developed commercially successful IC architectures and transistor-level circuits.
• Have deep experience designing, introducing, and overseeing the manufacture of complex mixed-signal integrated circuits.
• Lie awake at night dreaming about breakthrough integration opportunities for, like, uh… POL DC-DC converters!
• Know the ins and outs of CMOS transistor-level circuit design and device physics.
• Deftly navigate the maze of mixed-signal IC design (systems-level, circuit-level, spice simulation, custom layout, bench validation, and manufacturing test).
• Trouble-shoot and solve technical problems. (World problems come later.)
• Speak, write and chew gum at the same time and be impressively expressive.

Hey, it’d be really nice if you also knew:
• Analog behavioral modeling in the Cadence AMS environment.
• MATLAB/Simulink simulation.
• Transistor-level design of voltage references.
• Design and characterization of high-speed ADCs and DACs.
• DSP design techniques.

Is this you? Send us your info at: team@integralwave.com

Senior Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

And tonight’s prize job is…
Designing leading-edge analog and mixed-signal circuits for revolutionary products in power management and beyond! Congratulations, you may be selected to help make really critical decisions defining block-level circuit requirements, as well as be our go-to guy (or gal) for high-level IC simulation and transistor-level design of analog blocks, including data converters, voltage references, and high-voltage switching circuits. Wait! There’s more! You’ll be responsible for design, simulation, verification, bench testing, and support of IC testing. And, because you’re the innovative type, we’ve arranged for an elite team of power systems engineers, circuit architects, analog designers, layout designers, marketing engineers, and IC test engineers to help you create out-of-the-box products for multiple customer needs.

To win, here’s all you have to do:
• Have a BSEE, MSEE or PhD and 5+ years of mixed signal design!
• Design and introduce for manufacturing complex, mixed-signal integrated circuits!
• Show us you know CMOS transistor-level circuit design!
• Prove that you really get CMOS device physics!
• Demonstrate deep, sub-micron knowledge in all phases of mixed-signal IC design, including systems-level, circuit-level, spice simulation, custom layout, bench validation, and manufacturing test!
• Understand analog behavioral modeling in the Cadence AMS environment!
• Write and speak in complete sentences and paragraphs in case you’re actually called upon to explain your ideas!
• Be a trouble-shooter, a problem-solver and, on our softball team, hit with power to the opposite field!

To win the grand prize, show us you can:
• Design and characterize high-speed ADCs and DACs!
• Design transistor-level voltage references!
• Run MATLAB/Simulink simulations in your sleep!
• Know DSP design techniques!
• Name the first platinum album by the “Digital Control Algorithms”!
• Design PCBs!
• Be one with DC-DC converters and linear regulators!
• Be one, too, with BJT circuit design and device physics!
• Design Phase-Locked Loops!
• Stand out in a start-up!
• Work hard, have fun, make history!

Is this you? Send us your info at: team@integralwave.com

Product Innovation & Definition Guru

May the Force be with you.
Put your finger on true product innovation opportunities, Obi-Wan, and send clear action plans for our design teams to execute. See into our customers’ hearts and minds: analyze their needs; understand how they measure value; and respond to their deepest, but woefully unsatisfied desires. Focus the energies of our engineering teams, guiding them like human lasers to create products that will shine in the eyes of our customers and render “competitive offerings” grey and useless as moon dust.

Accelerate our success and yours, O wise one, by understanding to the minutest detail our customers, their galactic challenges, their potential, and the opportunities they provide. Be the conduit that connects us with their product designers. Be entrepreneurial and business savvy. Be a team-builder, communicator, systems power management expert. Carry the ball. Be the ball.

What every Guru must do:
• Create close working relationships with customers and their design teams, understanding their business model, technology, product, value roadmaps and trends, and synthesizing this information for our in-house teams.
• Identify what is valuable for the customer and provides growth opportunities for us; then use these parameters to define new products and the roadmaps to make them so.
• After developing functional specs for these new products, develop comprehensive design specifications for our IC design teams.
• Identify and evaluate growth areas and prepare competitive analyses to create proprietary product advantages.
• Provide MRD/PRD leadership, as well as mentor and motivate our technology teams during the product definition process.
• Participate directly and closely with our executive management team regarding all product development decisions. (You wield great power and influence, Obi-Wan.)
• As we grow, demonstrate your leadership skills and reap the opportunity to build and lead our team of Product Innovation & Definition Jedi warriors.

To achieve Guru status, you must bring:
• A BSEE or MSEE and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• System- and board-level design experience including responsibility for power subsystem design and implementation.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the “dark forces” – existing power industry suppliers and their evil offerings.
• Experience developing detailed product requirement specs and device characteristics.
• Software systems and user interface design experience (not absolutely required, but would put a definite “oh yeah” by your name).
• Proven track record generating innovative, commercially successfulproducts, preferably in a start-up environment.
• Customer contact experience on an engineering project or in a marketing context (would put two “oh yeahs” by your name).
• Capacity to thrive in a high-paced, roll-up-your-sleeves (unless of course you’re wearing a t-shirt) start-up environment.
• A solid understanding of key success drivers (and the cars they drive) for customers and their business models.
• Participation in and/or working knowledge of relevant industry associations and standards organizations such as PCI-SIG, PMBus, and PICMG...coupled with a reasonably deep, detailed working knowledge of these standards and their specs.

Is this you? Send us your info at: team@integralwave.com

Principal Packaging Engineer

Vice-Principal Packaging Engineers need not apply.
You are the authority figure who leads our IC design, test and marketing teams to develop packaging that adds value to our customers’ products. You possess encyclopedic knowledge of world-wide IC package manufacturing and assembly processes and will punish anyone who doesn’t respond to customer requirements for performance and reliability, IC design needs, and high volume packaging costs constraints. For this reason, you carry a paddle.

You walk the hallowed halls of high-power SiP package development for our power converter products. You recommend supply-chain partners to the district superintendent. You select substrate material, designs and layouts, meet thermal and electrical specs and high volume assembly cost targets. You develop professional drawings to document mechanicalrequirements. High-volume IC packaging and assembly vendors around the world listento your every word because no one wants to be sent to your office for bad behavior.

Principle Principal qualifications:
• BSME/MSME (EE is okay, too) and 10+ years of experience in semiconductor package design.
• Experience developing custom/semi-custom IC packages manufactured inhigh-volume by multiple vendors.
• Fundamental understanding of IC assembly manufacturing processes, including SiP, solder-bumping, flip-chip assembly, organic (FR4, BT) substrate manufacturing, chip-on-board, lead frame and wire bond technologies, as well as a working knowledge of high-volume manufacturing design rules for these processes.
• Understanding of package material systems including molding compounds, substrates, die attach materials, IC under-fills, and various solder alloys.
• Knowledge of thermal and electrical properties of IC packages and materials.
• Familiarity with relevant package and environmental specifications such as JEDEC, WEEE, RoHS, EIA, and E-I-E-I-O. (Sorry about that last one.) Please don’t punish us!
• Experience modeling and simulating package electrical parasitics and IC flow.
• Experience with mechanical drawing and geometric dimensioning in AutoCAD
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (and spot inspect all lockers between here and there).

You are in control if you:
• Possess a solid understanding of the semiconductor manufacturing process.
• Have professional working relationships with world-class IC assembly companies.
• Can perform detailed IC failure analysis and mechanical, electrical and thermal stress tests. (Principals like to administer tests.)
• Employ Finite-Element-Analysis to model thermal and/or electrical performance.
• Can produce PCB layouts and closely manage the entire circuit board fabrication process.
• Worked in a start-up environment and made sure everyone was in their places with bright, shiny faces.

IIs this you? Send us your info at: team@integralwave.com

Director of Analog/Mixed-Signal Design

You’re the director. Roll film and yell “action!”
You call the shots. You pick the IC cast. You perform and direct. — Collaborate with our Vice President of Engineering to turn every product script thrown your way into critically acclaimed circuit architectures and blockbuster chip designs. Show your cast of analog/mixed-signal design team and IC marketing engineers how to give an Oscar-winning performance. Say things like, “Once more with feeling.” “You’re beautiful, you’re magic.” and “Let’s do lunch.” — Wear a beret if you want; just so long as you deliver an IC product that has customers lining up at the box office. If you can do all that; if you love the lights, the action, and the perks, we’ve got a director’s chair for you.

C’mon, Spielberg, show us your reel. You did do the following, right?
• MSEE (or Ph.D) and 10+ years of Analog/Mixed-Signal design experience
• At least 3 years managing IC development teams and the scheduling, design, evaluation and market introduction of at least one commercially successful IC.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and providing technical and career guidance.
• Ability to design commercially successful IC architectures and transistor-level circuits.
• Extensive experience with CMOS transistor-level circuit design and device physics.
• Ability to analyze and design basic control systems at the block-diagram level.
• Experience with all phases of mixed-signal IC design (systems-level, circuit-level, spice simulation, custom layout, bench validation, manufacturing test).
• Solid problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills. Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

IC groupies will be screaming your name if you can also:
• Recruit mixed-signal design and layout talent.
• Design dc-dc converters and linear regulators.
• Design and characterize high-speed ADCs and DACs.
• Design precision voltage reference circuits.
• Design Phase-Locked Loops.
• Prove you have a knack for BJT circuit design and device physics.
• Wow us with your digital control algorithms and DSP techniques.
• Bowl us over with analog behavioral modeling in the Cadence AMS environment.
• Electrify us with MATLAB/Simulink simulation and PCB design.
• Convince the studio president you can handle yourself in a start-up environment

IIs this you? Send us your info at: team@integralwave.com

Notice to Head Hunters and Staffing Agencies:
Woe unto you who send unsolicited resumes, for they will become as ours, and you will receive zilch, nada, nothing for your toil. For it is written: only firms who contact our recruiting manager at jobs@integralwave.com and comply with our recruiting practices will be given consideration and reap the rewards of referral fees and eternal gratitude. So sayeth our attorneys.