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At Solarflare, we believe new ideas are only as good as the people who create and implement them and our success rests directly on the quality of our people and the products we develop. So if you would like to be a contributing part of an exciting, forward thinking company, where challenging responsibilities give you an opportunity to develop your skills to the next level, please review our job openings and contact us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
| Department | Position | Location | Experience Level |
| Engineering | Sr. Lead Design Validation Engineer | Irvine, CA | MSEE required and 5+ years industry experience |
| Engineering | Analog IC Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, MSEE preferred plus 3-5 years industry experience |
| Engineering | ASIC Design Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, MSEE/PhD preferred plus 5-7 years industry experience |
| Engineering | Associate Verification Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, plus 2 years industry experience |
| Engineering | High Speed Board Designer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, MSEE preferred plus 5-7 years industry experience |
| Engineering | Principal System Engineer | Irvine, CA | MSEE required, PhD preferred plus 10-15 years industry experience |
| Engineering | Validation Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, MSEE preferred plus 8-10 years industry experience |
| Engineering | Verification Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, MSEE preferred plus 5-7 years industry experience |
| Engineering | Verification Engineer (2) | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, MSEE preferred plus 5-7 years industry experience |
| Operations | Test Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required plus 5-7 years industry experience |
| Operations | Buyer Planner, Supply Chain Logistics Manager | Irvine, CA | Bachelor of Arts degree or certification in supply chain management is desired plus a minimum of 5 years relevant experience |
| Sales/Marketing | Field Application Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE preferred, MSEE preferred plus 10 years industry experience |
| Marketing | Senior Technical Marketing Engineer | Irvine, CA | BSEE required, Minimum 10+ years |
Position: Sr. Lead Design Validation Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Description:
Solarflare is a leading supplier of 10G LAN IC solutions. The design validation engineer is tasked with ensuring our products perform as promised to our customers. The scope of product spans controller ICs, physical interface ICs, circuit boards, embedded firmware, and system level software. These products are validated across mechanical, electrical, functional, operational, environmental, and system requirements. The work starts with product development specifications that lead to the creation of a meticulous validation test plan. The plan is based on:
Industry standards compliance; End-user metrics; Interoperability and compatibility requirements; Logo requirements,The work continues with the validation plan guiding efforts in the evaluation of these products through detailed test procedures in an advanced, robust lab setting. Test equipment consists of scopes, signal and spectrum analyzers, traffic generators, and test management applications software. We use a variety of set ups that include test boards, evaluation kits, reference designs, and custom test fixtures. Test systems are configured from a large farm of cable configurations, servers, switches, and operating systems. Results are collected and assembled into detailed reports. This effort includes close coordination with systems engineering and product development. The validation effort concludes with a qualification for product release. Additional deliverables include test summaries, failure analysis, defect tracking, and qualification reports.
System specifications; Data sheets; Application notes and design collateral
Responsibilities:
Validation test plan development; Identify and recommend equipment resources; Test set up and execution;; Test data collection; Validation test report generation; Defect tracking; Design debug; Work with third party test and certification labs; Work with IC designers and systems engineers
Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience
• Experience with IC architectures
• Analog/Mixed-signal experience
• System and circuit board experience
• Network protocol experience
• Solid analysis and debug skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Methodical and organized
Systems, Equipment, and Tools:
Linux; Windows; Labview; Matlab; Languages: C/C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, shell scripts, etc.;High speed oscilloscope (1GHz and above); Spectrum analyzer (up to 3 GHz); Traffic generator/analyzer (Spirent/Ixia 10G); Arbitrary waveform generator ( 1Gs/s)
Signal Generator (up to 1GHz); Network Analyzer (up to 3GHz)
Education:
MSEE Required
Position: Analog IC Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Design and develop critical CMOS circuits for 10 Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver chipsets
• Analog circuit design and simulation, as well as layout oversight and post-layout verification
Qualifications:
• 3-5 years experience in CMOS design for marketable products
• Comprehensive understanding of analog design
• CMOS data converter design
• Experience with high speed, high linearity CMOS data converters a plus
• Understanding of sensitive layout requirements
• High speed, high linearity experience a plus
• Familiarity with Cadence design environment, Matlab, and verilogA is important
• Understanding of and experience with RF issues (transmission lines, reflections, mutual coupling)
Education:
BSEE required, MSEE preferred
Position: Analog IC Engineer (2)
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop and oversee RX or TX path chips consisting of very high speed, very high linearity data converters for 10 Gigabit Ethernet applications
• Circuit design and feasibility analysis for future improvements, layout oversight and post-layout verification of entire chip
• Interact with packaging, ESD, test development and lab measurements
Qualifications:
• 10 years industry experience producing CMOS products.
• Experience with Matlab, Cadence design environment, verilogA, and mixed mode simulations required.
• Experience in successfully taking multiple chips from concept to marketable product
• RF experience at frequencies u to 1 GHz a significant plus.
• Comprehensive understanding of analog design
• High-speed CMOS converter expertise (DAC and/or ADC)
• Modern CMOS process awareness (.13um, 90nm, 65nm) a plus
• Sensitive full custom layout oversight
Education:
MSEE required, PhD preferred
Position: ASIC Design Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Design, verification, implementation (ASIC) of advanced signal processing algorithms for the physical layer of high speed wired data communication networks
• Develop ASIC specification, architecture, and micro-architecture of SOC implementation signal processing and communications algorithms
• Development/simulation of RTL hardware implementations in verilog
• Synthesis, gate level simulation, timing analysis, design for test, of complex digital ASICs
• Lab testing and debug
Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience in developing, implementing and testing high performance communications and DSP ASIC products
• Experience mapping communications algorithms to hardware and understanding of system design tradeoffs for high volume applications
• Must be familiar with signal processing circuit structure and architecture and high performance datapath arithmetic circuit design and optimization
• Must have extensive RTL experience including design, verification and synthesis
• Must have strong UNIX-based EDA tool skills and in-depth knowledge of ASIC design flows
• Must be familiar with reusable HDL coding styles and design for high volume manufacture
• Experience in bit-exact MATLAB and C/C++ based system simulation and evaluation a plus
Education:
BSEE required, MSEE/PhD preferred
Position: Associate Verification Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Design verification of a high performance physical layer application specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) device
• Responsible for the creation of ASIC test plans and hands on development of the test bench
• Duties include developing test case via VERA/VERILOG, performing simulations and debugging and documenting failures, designing and analyzing coverage metrics to ensure completion, analyzing test failures and aiding in debugging logic designs, utilizing the latest program libraries for synthesizing .13 micron and below ASIC, writing scripts, and ensuring proper register-to-register delays and input/output delays, conducting clock and chip level static timing analysis, determining proper load and drive values, assisting backend engineers in the use of synthesized netlist, developing self-checking test benches, creating and loading libraries and developing parameters to test benchmarks for the ASIC/Digital block.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years industry experience writing script and developing benchmark testing for ASIC or digital block
• 2 years experience with SPECMAN or VERA development tools, and perl/TLC or C/C++, and Verilog or VHDL programming languages with knowledge of UNIX platform.
Education:
BSEE required
Position: High Speed Board Designer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for architecture and design of high-speed digital boards for multiple gigabit applications
• Hardware specification, schematic capture, test and debug of board level prototyping systems and the design of CPLD/FPGA devices
Qualifications:
• 5 years digital board design including high speed (>500MHz) design and PCB layout experience
• Must have taken a board design successfully from concept to working system
• CPLD/FPGA design experience, test plan development, and board debug
• Experience with XAUI interface and/or high speed analog systems a plus
Education:
BSEE required, MSEE preferred
Position : Principal System Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Conceptual design, architectural partitioning between analog and digital signal processing, and interface definition between major blocks (e.g., AFE, DSP, MAC, firmware, and external components) associated with communication transceivers
• Participate in the transceiver systems specification of a high-speed communication integrated circuit with emphasis on the analog and mixed signal portion of the solution
• Develop behavioral simulations and author system specifications
• Develop techniques to mitigate nonlinearities in the AFE
• Work with and support the chip designers during the physical design phase of a project
• Participate in pre silicon verification, post silicon validation and specification conformance
Qualifications:
• Solid understanding of communication theory, fundamentals of signal processing, physics and modeling of transmission media and sources of interference
• Demonstrated experience in design and specification of mixed signal, high complexity chip solutions
• Requires working expertise in a system simulation tool preferably C or Matlab
• Must be proficient in three of the following areas
- PLL’s and timing recovery circuits,
- Data converters (ADC and DAC)
- Analog baseband (line driver, hybrid, low noise amplifier)
- Line interfaces (transformer)
• Ability to perform SPICE simulations highly desirable
• Past experience with copper channels highly desirable
Education:
MSEE plus 15 years experience required; PhDEE plus 10 years of experience preferred
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Position: Validation Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Develop and document test plans and test procedures for validation of the Solarflare’s ICs based on IC Specifications and datasheets
• Select standard test equipment
• Develop software for test equipment control
• Perform test procedures
• Interface with IC design and Systems teams in problem identification and resolution
• Interface with ATE engineers for additional IC tests
Qualifications:
• Experience in design validation and test
• Experience with Ethernet products
• Experience with validation of complex datacom systems and integrated circuits
• Working knowledge of communication and lab test equipment
• Methodical and organized
• Experience in developing test plans and test procedures
Education:
BSEE 10+ years experience required, MSEE and 5+ years experience preferred
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Position: Verification Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for design verification of a high performance PHY ASIC
• Contribute to the development of overall verification strategy, simulation environment, coverage methodology with particular focus in the area of arithmetic circuit verification
• Contribute to creation of ASIC test plans and hands on development of test bench
• Carried out test cases development via VERA/VERILOG
• Design/Develop models for test environment setup
• Run simulations, debug the failures and document
• Create and Analyze coverage metrics to ensure completeness
• Analyzing test failures and aiding in debugging logic designs
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in ASIC verification and working experience with designs having significant datapath components
• Working experience with verification of complex arithmetic design against bit-exact MATLAB and C/C++ system modeling
• Must be familiar with Verilog, Vera verification environment, common RTL simulation and verification tools
• Experience with programming languages: C/C++, PERL, PLI is a must
• Experience in verifying designs at system level and block level is required
• Good understanding of IC design fundamentals
• Experience with system Verilog, formal checking tools and assertions is highly desirable
• Familiarity with DSP and PHY layer communication protocols of 802.3 is a plus
Education:
BSEE required, MSEE preferred
Position: Verification Engineer (2)
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Design verification of a high performance PHY ASIC
• Contribute to the development of overall verification strategy, simulation environment, coverage methodology
• Contribute to creation of ASIC test plans and hands on development of test bench
• Carried out test cases development via VERA/VERILOG
• Design/Develop models for test environment setup
• Run simulations, debug the failures and document
• Create and Analyze coverage metrics to ensure completeness
• Analyzing test failures and aiding in debugging logic designs
Qualifications:
• 5 plus years experience in ASIC verification and working experience with designs requiring compliance to standard specifications and/or embedding processor core
• Must be familiar with Verilog, Vera verification environment, common RTL simulation and verification tools
• Experience in verifying designs at system level and block level is required
• Good understanding of IC design fundamentals
• Experience with system Verilog, formal checking tools and assertions is highly desirable
• Experience with programming languages: C/C++, PERL, PLI is desirable
• Familiarity with DSP and PHY layer communication protocols of 802.3 is a plus
Education:
BSEE required, MSEE preferred
Position: Test Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Analog/Mixed signal Test Development
• On-time development of production ATE test solutions
• Assisting product engineers in assessment of product yield signatures
• Implementation of reliable volume product test solutions (multi-million unit quantities)
Qualifications:
• Minimum of 5 years demonstrated success in code writing skills in C or Visual Basic and experience on ATEs Teradyne and Agilent test equipment
Must have demonstrated track record of supporting the following aspects of product introduction schedules:
• Hardware & software test planning with consideration of design for test
• Hardware & software development (lab and/or ATE based)
• Code writing, hardware configuration, repeatability
• Correlation of product results across multiple ATE and lab-based systems
• Perform product characterization testing
• Document and release complete production test solution
Education:
BSEE
Position: Buyer Planner, Supply Chain Logistics Manager
Status: Fulltime
Description:
Manage material and supply logistics supporting Solarflare's manufacture
of semiconductors and circuit board products. Aggregate and reconcile demand forecasts from Sales, Marketing
and Engineering resources. Procure components and supplies based on forecast demand. Monitor WIP status with
suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, expediting when necessary. Process customer orders and complete shipment
of Solarflare products by promised dates. Monitor and maintain inventory at prescribed levels internally and
across Solarflare's internationally-based supply chain. Coordinate international shippment of product from
Solarflare between vendors or to customers from Solarflare's on-site inventory stores or via contract
manufacturers.
Qualifications:
• Minimum of 5 years experience in supply chain logistics with demonstrated background in procurement of materials, coordination of supply chain activities and customer fulfillment processes. Candidates with experience in the sectors of IC manufacturing or printed circuit board products carries a substantial advantage.
• Experience working with procurement systems, MRP and WIP management systems including understanding of requirements for order processing and Approved Vendor Lists.
• Regular communication and collaboration with suppliers and Solarflare's management team to accurately represent material status, forecast and build plans is a large part of the job.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools is a necessity. In particular, strong Excel skills are a must. Experience navigating and maintaining existing spreadsheets as well as generating new ones is necessary including entry of data and familiarity with basic formulas. Knowledge of basic analysis tools such as charting and filtering are also required. Familiarity with pivot tables carries an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience with international shipping logistics, packing requirements, freight carriers, insurance and related transport practices based on standard Incoterms.
• Familiarity with corporate quality requirements and procedures built around ISO and SOX is needed. A track record of participating in supplier business reviews is a plus.
• Position requires clear spoken and written English language skills. Additional languages are not required but may be a benefit - in particular, Chinese or Mandarin which are common within Solarflare's supply chain.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts degree or certification in supply chain management is desired.
Position: Field Application Engineer
Status: Fulltime
Responsibilities:
• Use practical knowledge and experience in the semiconductor and systems business to provide technical hands-on support to the customer. Talk with customers, analyze their technical requirements and champion solutions
• Understand and prioritize market and customer requirements
• Assist customer integration of Solarflare physical layer products
• Review customer's schematics and board layouts
• Work in the lab with state of the art equipment to debug customer designs
• Work closely with marketing and engineering to provide real-time customer requirements and product feedback
• Support trade show demonstrations and other market development activities
• Support marketing with the writing and development of customer collateral and technical documentation
Qualifications:
• 10+ years of industry experience in Design and FAE
• Experience with both PHY and Ethernet controller products
• Hands-on lab debugging experience
• Experience has to include both high speed (Gbps) digital and analog circuitry
• Experience with signal integrity would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of some of the main standards used in datacom and storage – Primarily 1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T Ethernet. Knowledge of Infiniband, PCI Express, and Fiber Channel would be a plus
• Candidate must have experience working with customers in the area of communications and/or computer architecture and design
• Candidate must possess superior verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and a passion for supporting customers
• The ability to communicate, and form and maintain close relationships with domestic and international customers
• Experience working at the system or board level and the ability to provide leadership for future products is expected
Education:
BSEE or equivalent, MSEE preferred
Position: Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, PHY and Controller products
Status: Full Time
Responsibilites:
The Sr. TME will use practical knowledge and experience in the semiconductor and systems business to provide technical marketing support to the FAE team and to the customers. The ideal candidate would have experience with both PHY and Ethernet controller products.
Talk with customers, analyze their technical requirements and champion solutions
Understand and prioritize market and customer requirements
Work closely with engineering to provide real-time customer requirements and product feedback.
Gather and analyze requirements for future products and inputs in to product roadmap
Support trade show demonstrations and other market development activities
Write and develop customer collateral and technical documentation
Write and develop technical white papers that help establish SF as a technical and thought leader
Qualifications:
A Bachelor of Science degree in EE or equivalent (MSEE or MBA a plus)
10+ years of industry experience (FEA, Engineering, Technical marketing,)
Experience has to include both high speed (Gbps) digital and analog circuitry
Strong knowledge of some of the main standards used in datacom and storage – Primarily 1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T Ethernet. Knowledge of Infiniband, PCI Express, and Fibre Channel would be a plus.
Candidate must have experience working with customers in the area of communications and/or computer architecture and design
Candidate must possess superior verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and a passion for supporting customers
The ability to communicate, and form and maintain close relationships with customers and SF engineering
Ability to be the voice of the customer and to influence peers and higher management
Ability to provide leadership for future products