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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 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 a Validation Engineer at Apogee Semiconductor, you will be instrumental in ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of functional and quality requirements. By developing and implementing in-house test and characterization systems and software, you will play a critical role in our product development cycle, from initial design to final production.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and Implement Test Systems: Design and build test hardware and procedures to evaluate the performance and reliability of semiconductor products.
• Software Development for Testing: Create custom software solutions to automate testing processes, enhance data collection, and analyze test results efficiently.
• Product Characterization: Conduct thorough characterization of new products to establish benchmarks and ensure they meet all specified technical standards.
• Quality Assurance: Work closely with the quality assurance team to identify potential issues in products and rectify them before they reach the market.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate documentation of test procedures and results. Prepare detailed reports to share findings with the engineering team and management.
• Continuous Improvement: Continually seek to improve test methodologies and systems for better accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the product development and engineering teams to understand product specifications and ensure test systems are aligned with design requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in test engineering, specifically in semiconductor or electronics manufacturing.
• Proficient in PCB design, including schematic capture, and layout.
• Proficiency in Python for test automation and data analysis.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Strong understanding of electronic test equipment, data acquisition, and signal processing.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve complex problems effectively.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Available to work full-time in our Plano office

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience as a test engineer or validation engineer specifically in semiconductor or electronics manufacturing.
• Familiarity with National Instruments LabVIEW programming suite.

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.

If you feel that 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 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 a Product Engineer, you will be responsible for product sustaining and support activities for high reliability semiconductor products. In addition, you will work with design teams for new product development activities such as test definition and characterization. The position is key contributor for new product development, improving test solutions, and improving yields.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop Test and Characterization Plans: Work with design to develop detailed test and characterization plans for new products. Production Test Development: Work with external test engineers to support test hardware and software development, limit setting, and data review.
• Product sustaining: Support product returns, failure analysis, and product changes.
• Product qualification: Execute on product qualification plans and data analysis.
• Quality Assurance: Monitor new and existing products to identify potential quality issues in products and rectify them before they reach the market.
• Third-party support: Support assembly, test, and foundries for new and existing products.
• Continuous Improvement: Continually seek to improve test methodologies and systems for better accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proficient in PCB design, including schematic capture, and layout.
• Proficient in Python for scripting and data analysis.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Proficiency in data analysis, with strong skills in applying statistical methods to interpret, visualize, and communicate complex datasets effectively.
• Ability to learn and leverage new technologies quickly, document and teach others.
• Willing to take ownership and drive complex tasks as projects.
• Work independently, with team, vendors, or individuals until completion.
• Excellent teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of experience as a semiconductor product engineer or test engineer.
• Experience with high reliability and/or space grade semiconductors.
• Familiarity with Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques, to monitor and control manufacturing processes for quality assurance.

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.

If you feel that 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 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 a Junior Analog Verification Engineer at Apogee Semiconductor, you will be instrumental in verifying that our designs meet the highest standards of performance by implementing a combination of behavioral modeling, simulation, and regression testing of analog and mixed-signal IC.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop behavioral models: Design and build models to represent desired performance or measured performance of specific functional blocks within an analog or mixed-signal system.
• Design and Analysis: Analyze and design analog circuit building blocks (i.e. current source, common-source gain stage …).
• Regression automation: Specify and automate test and regression requirements for analog and mixed-signal system.
• Simulation: Use transistor level simulation tools such as Spectre and AFS, and event driven simulation tools such as Xcelium and VCS, leveraging formal verification methods where applicable
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate documentation of verification procedures and results. Prepare detailed reports to share findings with the engineering team and management.
• Continuous Improvement: Continually seek to improve verification methodologies.
• Collaboration: Work closely with analog and digital design team product development and engineering teams to understand product specifications and ensure verification plans are aligned with design requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Ability for circuit analysis, both on block level and system level, with a basic understanding of system control theory
• Domain expertise within at least one major functional area of analog and mixed-signal design, such as voltage regulators and power management or data conversion
• Prior experience with Cadence’s custom IC design environment (icfb) and analog circuit simulation (Spectre, AFS, or HSPICE)
• Understanding of basic statistical design principles
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Available to work full-time in our Plano office

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with mixed-signal and fast-spice simulation (Cadence AMS Designer, AFS Symphony, CustomSim), and system/HDL modeling languages (MATLAB, Verilog, Verilog-A, Verilog-MS, or SystemVerilog)
• Experience with digital design methodology
• Understanding the impact of physical design layout and process variation on analog designs
• Comfortable working in UNIX and familiar with shell scripting (csh or bash) and/or Python

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.

If you feel that 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 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 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 a Senior Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Designer at Apogee Semiconductor, you will be instrumental in designing products that meet the highest standards of function and quality. By developing new integrated circuits, you will play a critical role in our product development cycle, from initial design to final production.

What You’ll Do:

• Design Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits: Design and support layout of integrated circuits for high reliability products that meet the product specifications and schedule.
• Design Verification: Work closely with the design verification team to ensure products meet specification and functional requirements
• Product Characterization: Work closely with the validation and test team to support new product characterization and test.
• Quality Assurance: Work closely with the quality assurance team to identify potential issues in products and rectify them before they reach the market. Provide any design support needed to for customer returns.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate documentation for design reviews and circuit specifications that can be used by cross functional teams for product development.
• Continuous Improvement: Continually seek to improve design methodologies and systems for better accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the systems, product development and test engineering teams to understand product specifications and ensure products are aligned with specification requirements.
• Mentoring: Mentor junior engineers as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience Analog/Mixed Signal Design.
• Strong circuit design and analysis skills.
• Experience designing ADCs, DACs, high voltage circuits, voltage references, oscillators, power converters, etc.
• Strong understanding of CMOS/BICMOS processing and basic device physics.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve complex problems effectively.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years’ experience as an Analog Designer or Mixed Signal designer.
• Familiarity with the Cadence tool chain for custom circuit design.
  

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. 

If you feel that 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 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.