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About this position:

Apogee Semiconductor provides products and technologies for space and other extreme environments. We are focused on making the frontier of space more accessible by bridging the technology gap between commercial and high-reliability technologies at a lower cost. We provide optimized products and infrastructure that give our customers the best in reliability and value. Our products and services are targeted towards enabling small satellites and large constellations that require high performance, a small form factor and radiation resilience at a lower cost. Working in partnership with state-of-the art semiconductor foundries, Apogee Semiconductor develops radiation hardened processes and components that serve as the foundation for our cutting-edge integrated circuits and IP blocks.

As the Director of Quality, you will have a strategic role within the organization, aligning quality management with business objectives to drive both compliance and performance. You will develop and execute quality strategies that enhance process efficiency and predictability, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Collaborating with various stakeholders, you will ensure quality practices are integrated across all operations, influencing change and helping shape the company’s long-term direction.

What you’ll do:

Maintain and Improve Quality Management System (QMS):

• Maintain and improve comprehensive quality control policies and procedures to ensure compliance with industry requirements and company standards.
• Continuously review and update quality control protocols to reflect changes in specifications, industry best practices, and business needs.
• Develop and implement procedures in preparation for MIL-PRF-38535 compliance and DLA certification.

Conduct Quality Audits & Manage Supplier Quality Performance:

• Plan and conduct internal audits across all areas including New Product Development, Calibration, Human Resources, Change Control, Supplier Management, etc.
• Support ongoing external ISO 9001 audits and customer audits.
• Review audit findings to identify trends, areas for improvement, and potential risks, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to address issues promptly.
• Conduct supplier audits and evaluate supplier performance for new and existing suppliers.
• Analyze trends to drive targeted corrective actions and implement a risk management framework that proactively addresses potential quality issues.

Ensure Compliance:

• Ensure that all quality control activities are conducted in accordance with relevant customer and industrial requirements, guidelines, and internal policies.
• Review customer quality requirements during onboarding to confirm compliance.

Drive Process Improvement:

• Analyze quality control data to identify process inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement process improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and quality.

Provide Reporting and Analysis:

• Prepare regular reports and presentations on quality control metrics, audit findings, and key performance indicators for senior management and relevant stakeholders.
• Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to support decision-making and strategic planning efforts.
• Monitor key supplier performance reporting statistics and metrics for trends for leadership review and evaluation.
• Develop and review internal and external facing quality documents such as qualification flows/requirements, MTTF calculations, PCNs, etc.
• Support the review and disposition of confirmed failures and customer returns during new product development and production.
• Work cross-functionally to track and drive corrective actions to closure.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or similar.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with at least 5 years in a leadership or management role.
• In-depth knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing methodologies.
• Demonstrated expertise in quality management systems for space applications, including experience with MIL-PRF-38535, MIL-STD-883, and other related standards.
• Knowledge and experience in audits (ISO 9001:2015, AS9100, ISO 13485, MIL-PRF-38535).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex customer and industry requirements for commercial and military grade electronic components.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Proven leadership ability, with a track record of building and managing high-performing teams.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint), and other analytic tools/software.

Benefits:

All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits. Base pay is a single component of Apogee Semiconductor’s total rewards package, which may also include equity in the form of incentive stock options, high quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance benefits, flexible PTO, and 401(K) retirement.

Apogee Semiconductor pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.

U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, Or Refugee/Asylee Status Required (To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

At Apogee Semiconductor, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe in equal opportunity for all employees and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Our policies are designed to promote a respectful and productive work environment for everyone

About this position:

Apogee Semiconductor provides products and technologies for space and other extreme environments. We are focused on making the frontier of space more accessible by bridging the technology gap between commercial and high-reliability technologies at a lower cost. We provide optimized products and infrastructure that give you the best in reliability and value. Our products and services are targeted towards enabling small-satellites and large constellations that require high performance, a small form factor and radiation resilience at a lower cost. Working in partnership with state-of-the art semiconductor foundries, Apogee Semiconductor develops radiation hardened processes and components that serve as the foundation for our cutting-edge integrated circuits and IP blocks.

As an Applications Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to support customers using Apogee products, specifically, power management ICs (PMICs) and digital logic devices. This includes interfacing with customers to facilitate robust implementations of new designs including schematic and layout reviews. You will design and build hardware reference designs including documentation enabling effective evaluation of Apogee products. Generating marketing collateral that promotes use of our products such as application notes, simulation models, simulation testbenches, and test reports are also a key responsibility of an applications engineer. Strong collaboration among the cross functional teams involved in new product development is required.

What You’ll Do:

Customer Support: Provide key technical support to our customers to enable design-ins. Resolve technical issues. Assist in the design, integration, and deployment of company products into customer applications.

Collateral/Documentation: Create reference designs, user’s guides, test reports, application notes, and other technical marketing collateral. Create hardware demos highlighting differentiated features of Apogee products. Support data sheet generation and simulation models.

Lab evaluation: Bench test Apogee products to validate and resolve customer care-abouts. Include bench test results in reference design user’s guides. Support heavy-ion Single Event Effects radiation testing with hardware, test plans, and testing at the facility, if required.

Participate in all phases of development: Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve issues and implement product improvements.

Travel: Occasional travel to customer sites for in-person support, system integration, troubleshooting, and technical discussions. Attend trade shows, conferences, and customer meetings to promote the company's products

Continuous improvement: Continually work to improve processes and methodologies for better accuracy, efficiency, ad cost-effectiveness.

Collaboration: Work closely with the strategic general manager and the marketing manager as well as other stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Masters of Electronics Engineering or related discipline.
• 3+ years’ experience as an Applications Engineer specifically in semiconductor or electronics manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of power converter architectures (buck, boost, forward, full bridge, phase shifted full bridge, etc.).
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Desire and drive to interact with customers and internal teams.
• Application PCB design/layout (KiCAD).
• Attention to detail, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate complex technical concepts to different audiences with varying level of technical understanding.
• Available to work full-time in the Plano Office

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ engineering experience with power management ICs (PMICs)

Benefits:

All our positions offer a comprehensive compensation package, including equity and robust benefits.

Base pay is part of Apogee Semiconductor’s total rewards package, which may include incentive stock options, company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, flexible PTO, and 401(K) retirement.

Apogee Semiconductor pay ranges are informed and defined through professional grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.

If you feel you would be a good match for our company, please send your resume to:

careers@apogeesemi.com

U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required

(To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)

At Apogee Semiconductor, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe in equal opportunity for all employees and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Our policies are designed to promote a respectful and productive work environment for everyone.

Apogee Semiconductor provides products and technologies for space and other extreme environments. We are focused on making the frontier of space more accessible by bridging the technology gap between commercial and high-reliability technologies at a lower cost. We provide optimized products and infrastructure that give you the best in reliability and value. Our products and services are targeted towards enabling small-satellites and large constellations that require high performance, a small form factor and radiation resilience at a lower cost. Working in partnership with state-of-the art semiconductor foundries, Apogee Semiconductor develops radiation hardened processes and components that serve as the foundation for our cutting-edge integrated circuits and IP blocks.

Primary Responsibilities:

As the Regional Technical Sales Manager, your primary responsibility will be to promote Apogee products via all available channels within your assigned territory. This includes being responsible for direct accounts, manufacturers’ representatives and distributors in your territory. This role will be responsible for sales growth, account management and achieving the quarterly/annual sales targets. Prospecting through conferences, emailing/calling and utilizing our rep networks is key to growth and success for this position.

What You’ll Do:

Customers: Maintain the sales funnel with relevant data, and to be able to articulate the status of key opportunities with management. Attain/exceed revenue growth goals.

Budget: Own the budgeting for your region(s) and be responsible for generating and attaining budgets for your region(s).

Travel: Minimum overnight travel requirement in assigned territory to visit both current and prospective customers is 35%. Travel is primarily domestic but may also include an occasional international trip. The purpose of these trips is to visit current customers, present our service offerings to new prospective customers, train rep networks, attend conferences and any other task needed to hit the assigned sales quota.

Manufactures Reps: Be responsible for the recruitment, retainment, training and support of manufactures reps in your territory.

Distribution Partners: Be responsible for engagement and support of all distribution partners in your territory.

Marketing Support: Support marketing efforts with field engagement and active participation in marketing efforts. Work with marketing and engineering on the product roadmap by engaging with key customers to facilitate their input into the NPI process.

New Product Introduction: Support NPI efforts with new product definition, primarily based on key customer inputs. Support new product releases with marketing efforts.

Collaboration: Create and maintain working relationships with key customer contacts, and key contacts in the representative organization, and distributors.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the electronics components industry
• Experience in technical sales or applications engineering
• Experience in CRM platforms

Benefits: All our positions offer a comprehensive compensation package, including equity and robust benefits.

Base pay is part of Apogee Semiconductor’s total rewards package, which may include incentive stock options, company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, flexible PTO, and 401(K) retirement.

Apogee Semiconductor pay ranges are informed and defined through professional grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.

U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required (To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

At Apogee Semiconductor, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We believe in equal opportunity for all employees and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Our policies are designed to promote a respectful and productive work environment for everyone.