Draper
Project Lead ASIC Engineer
Cambridge, MA · Full-time
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About the role
- Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
- The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions.
- From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Design and simulate circuits at transistor-level to implement architecture and requirement specifications
- Contribute to system-level design
- 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
- Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers
Requirements
- Requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering, or related field.
- Requires 5-7 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, or 3-5 years of experience with a master's degree, or 0-2 years of experience with a PhD in ASIC Hardware Engineering or related.
- Proficiency in integrated circuit design
- Lead a cross functional team on the execution and development of custom ASICs that support project and mission goals
- 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
- 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
- Maintain thorough and up-to-date project schedules with all related milestones
- Develop and implement Qualification plans
- Ability to effectively coordinate and lead geographically diverse development teams on projects that include design, silicon fabrications, test development, qualification and production ramp
Nice to have
- Work with wafer fabrication, assembly & test sites to guarantee schedule, cost, and quality
- Provide weekly and monthly updates to program management on status of projects, explaining the issues facing a project
- This includes samples deliveries, wafer lot progress, assembly, and testing
- Work with failure analysis (FA) to determine root cause of any reliability and qualification failures
- 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
- Masters degree preferred.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent mathematical skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is
Benefits
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Company info
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
- To request reasonable accommodation, please contact hr@draper.com.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance
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