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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 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.

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.

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 Program Manager, you will lead multi-disciplinary electrical engineering teams through the New Product Development (NPD) process, driving the development of radiation-hardened semiconductor solutions for Space applications. You will collaborate closely with Design, Product, Test, and Operations teams to ensure on-time delivery, maintaining world-class quality and driving key metrics such as CPI and SPI. You will be in charge of developing new products from the concept phase to validation and then production release.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives related to customer schedules, project cost, product margin, and quality.
• Work closely with Business Managers, Product Engineers, and R&D leaders to define project requirements and execution strategies.
• Drive new product development of radiation-hardened analog and mixed-signal ICs, ensuring compliance with military, aerospace, and industrial standards.
• Establish and finalize project charters, aligning with customer expectations and internal technical capabilities before execution.
• Develop and maintain a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) covering:
  • System architecture and design
  • Electrical characterization and validation
  • Test strategy development
  • Manufacturing and qualification processes
  • Customer engagement and product support
• Resource planning: Work across teams to ensure proper staffing and technical expertise at every phase of development.
• Risk management and communication: Identify potential risks early, develop mitigation plans, and ensure transparent communication with stakeholders.
• Critical path monitoring: Continuously assess development timelines, identify bottlenecks, and drive issue resolution.
• Budget oversight: Ensure program costs align with financial objectives.
• Predictive program steering: Anticipate problems before they arise, proactively addressing challenges to keep projects on track.
• Gatekeeping: Ensure all program milestones are met with clear, high-quality deliverables.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience in Program/Project Management within the semiconductor industry, specifically in New Product Development (NPD) / New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Strong technical understanding of radiation-hardened IC design, validation, and test methodologies.
• Project management expertise – PMI/PMP certification is a plus but not required.
• Critical thinking skills with a structured approach to risk management and problem-solving.
• Excellent leadership, coordination, and interpersonal skills within a matrix organization.
• Ability to influence across all levels of the organization and align cross-functional teams.
• Effective communication skills, able to present technical and business updates concisely.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with automotive, aerospace, or defense industry standards.
• Familiarity with radiation effects on semiconductor devices.

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 Paid Time Off and 401(K) a retirement plan.

Apogee Semiconductor pay ranges are informed and defined through a professional compensation data source. 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 opportunities 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.