[KIT-list] Senior Power Amplifier Engineer, audio (Hybrid role during COVID, Costa Mesa, CA, relocation available)

Saturday, February 12, 2022

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Job Title
Senior Power Amplifier Engineer, audio, Hybrid role, Costa Mesa, CA
*** This position is a hybrid role until covid is over. Some on-campus lab time will be required, and the rest will be WFH. Relocation is available for the right Candidate.



Job Description
Our client is a premier audio manufacturer located in Southern CA. The Senior Power Amplifier Engineer is responsible for creating and implementing electronic hardware products for the Company. The Engineer will design and develop audio specific power supplies and amplifiers with power levels ranging from several watts to tens of kilowatts. A successful candidate needs a broad technical background designing, simulating, fabricating, and testing both switch mode power supplies (SMPS) and class D audio power amplifiers.

Typical responsibilities include analog and digital circuit design, architectural design, schematic capture, circuit modeling and simulation, PCB layout, timing and signal integrity analysis, components evaluation and selection, solving EMC and regulatory issues, bringing up prototypes and troubleshooting, test and validation of the designs.

Engineer is responsible for delivering product design that meets all safety, regulatory, and performance requirements. In addition, the Senior Power Amplifier Engineer will provide guidance to junior team members and technicians.

The position requires the individual to work well within a small, cross-functional team consisting of mechanical, software, and firmware engineers, as well as product managers, program managers, manufacturing engineers, and NPI engineers. The role requires someone who is self-motivated, has excellent problem solving skills, possesses a keen attention to detail, works well within a small team, and can produce results.


Specific Duties Include
Designs and implements analog and digital electronic hardware with an emphasis on audio applications.
Development and analysis of audio electronics components and systems.
Develops power supplies and amplifiers for use in professional audio products.
SMPS topology analysis and selection.
Design simulation in Micro-Cap.
Magnetic design and prototype of inductors and transformers.
Tests, validates, and verifies audio performance of audio systems and subsystems.
Test, qualify, and debug supply and amplifier to meet FCC, CE, UL, etc. standards.
Drives and achieves results that meet aggressive time and cost constraints.
Works effectively with other design engineers, manufacturing, test engineering and outside suppliers to ensure a high quality, robust solution in minimal time.
Must be self-motivated in order to achieve assigned objectives with minimal supervision.
Lead, mentor, and support junior engineers in their career development and project design efforts.
Travel to Asia and other countries approximately 5% of the time. (when covid is gone).
Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills
BSEE required, MSEE preferred.
10 + years' design experience is required.
Experience with simulation tool(s) is required.
Extensive experience with schematic capture/PCB layout software required. (Cadence Allegro preferred).
Experience with high fidelity analog & digital audio circuit design, operational amplifiers, and high dynamic range audio data converter.
Experience with audio power amplifier design, such as Class-D amplifiers.
Solid theoretical and practical knowledge of switch-mode power conversion for use in DC/DC power supplies.
Magnetic design skills for inductors and transformers required.
Knowledge of regulatory compliance requirements and test methods including UL, FCC, CE, and others as appropriate.
Good communication skills, both written and oral, in English.
Superior problem solving skills: issue identification, problem structuring, analysis, and developing recommendations.
Ability to produce results in a dynamic work environment.
VHDL or Verilog experience is a plus.
Experience with C++ scripting and other high-level programming languages is a plus.


Please send applications/resumes to: elise@skylinerecruiting.com


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[KIT-list] Firmware Engineer, Audio, Embedded C (San Diego, CA, relocation available)


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Firmware Engineer, Audio, Embedded C (San Diego, CA) Job ID 3285

NOTE: Relocation is available for the selected candidate.
Job Description
Our client is one of the foremost Gaming Headphone creators in the USA. Due to recent growth, they are seeking to hire another creative Firmware Engineer to add to their team. The Firmware Engineer will become an integral part of the audio headset engineering team. The selected candidate will work with our experienced engineering staff in the development of Company's gaming headsets. Work will include analysis, design, development, integration and testing of firmware for our products. The work will be highly collaborative with firmware engineers, hardware engineers, and test engineers. This opportunity represents a unique opportunity for candidates interested in working in a fast paced, team environment, creating cool gaming headsets.
Specific Duties Include
Develop embedded software for high-volume consumer audio products.
Collaborate with firmware, software, hardware, and test engineers to deliver products.
Work with product managers and third-party vendors gathering requirements.
Develop software in Embedded C and assembly for headsets or related products.
Create software architectures.
Participate in peer reviews.
Debug and fix software defects.
Unit test firmware.
Required Skills
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
3-5 years of relevant engineering experience preferred
Solid fundamentals in object-oriented programming and data structures
Worked with embedded CPUs, 8051, ARM, Microchip, NXP, Freescale, CSR
Data Communication over USB, UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, Bluetooth, BLE, WiFi
Real-time, multi-threading experience, interrupts, RTOS, and bare metal systems
Experience with Bootloaders, FLASH, EEPROM, timers, DMAs, peripheral drivers
Familiarity with digital audio processing, A/D and D/A audio converters
Digital electronics, schematics, and, board bring up
Debugging with emulators, debuggers, JTAG, IDEs, and unit tests
Experience with Consumer Electronics, Audio, or Gaming a plus
Programming experience in embedded C, C++, C#, Python. shell scripting a plus


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[KIT-list] Senior Application Engineer, Wireless CE (San Jose, CA)

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Senior Application Engineer, Wireless CE, San Jose, CA (Job ID 3289)

Job Description:
Our client is an industry leader in wireless charging and wireless power. Due to recent growth, they are seeking to add a Senior Application Engineer to their team in San Jose, CA. (Sorry, no remote candidates for this role please.)
Specific Duties Include

- Engage closely with sales, engineering, and customer personnel to bring up new Tx and Rx reference modules at customer sites, troubleshoot customer prototypes, and develop solutions that support end-user applications.
- Support of architecture and low-level hardware questions and issues.
- Analysis of customer architecture and requirements.
- Integrate, test, and debug customer modules, systems and evaluation platforms based on Company Tx & Rx products, using bench top setups and state of the art electrical test equipment. This work will be performed at Company facility and at global customer sites.
- Coordinate with operations engineering & regulatory to ensure end-to-end system readiness
- Modify existing reference designs for customers based on their ID/ME and PRD requirements, i.e., requires knowledge on doing detailed Electrical and RF design and layouts.
- Perform customer's schematic and layout design reviews to achieve optimal performance.
- Professionally manage relationships with key customers.
- Drive high customer satisfaction through excellent customer service, problem solving, and responsiveness.
- Train Field Applications Engineers.
- Train customers on the use of Company technologies directly and via web conferences.
- Document and advocate improvements for Company products to our QA, Development, and
- Product Management team(s).
- Develop customer documents such as data sheets, design guidelines, and application notes.
- Play a critical role in developing and fostering enduring customer relationships that grow Company business

Required Skills

- 7-10 years plus BS/CE/EE/CS, in relevant fields with a strong track record of success, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to work with a variety of internal employees in Hardware and Software Engineering, Architecture, Field Applications Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Regulatory and senior management.
- Knowledge in most, if not all of the following areas:
- Applications Engineering
- Direct customer interaction and involvement
- Project or time management skills
- Ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently
- Ability to explain and train others on complex technology
- Debugging of complicated problems or bugs
- Hardware/software/firmware bring-up
- Training of customers and/or FAEs Architecture and Low Level Hardware/Software
- Experience with working with ODMs and CMs to quickly transition from NPI to production ramp up.
- Experience in DFM and DFT and optimizing manufacturing process for maximum yield.
- Solid understanding of RF testing with an emphasis on WLAN, WWAN, NFC and Bluetooth.
- Experience with bench level testing using equipment such as digital oscilloscopes, digital communications analyzers, signal generators, RF spectrum analyzers, VNA, and custom test/evaluation boards.
- Experience in hardware/firmware bring up, including the use of GUIs and scripts for hardware control and automation
- Experience in documenting product requirements extracted from industry safety and standards.
- Experience interacting with customers, regulatory agencies, test labs, etc.
- Ability to multitask in a high energy environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and enthusiasm for solving customer problems in a collaborative manner.
- Some travel to customer sites is required.

Please send applications/resumes to: elise@skylinerecruiting.com


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[KIT-list] Hardware Systems Lead/Principal Engineer or Manager, wireless CE (San Jose, CA)

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Hardware Systems Lead/Principal Engineer or Manager, wireless CE, San Jose, CA (Job ID 3273)

Job Description
Our client is an industry leader in wireless charging and wireless power. Due to recent growth, they are seeking to add a Lead/Principal Hardware Systems Engineer or (Hands-on) Manager to their team in San Jose, CA. (Sorry, no remote candidates for this role please.)
Specific Duties Include

Owner of hardware requirements, architecture, and board designs for wireless power reference systems.
System/Chip bringup & DVT leader, including test definition and analysis.
New device support including pre-tapeout
Tier-1 customer support
NPI support including manufacturing test development & regulatory certification.
Help manage small team.

Required Skills

MSEE with min 8 yrs experience.
Board-Level Hardware Design.
Architecture and schematics, component selection, DFx for high volume mass production.
PCB layout including best practices for RF, high-speed digital, and power systems.
Expert in PCB design tools and processes.
Excellent lab/debugging practices across multiple domains.
Analog, digital, RF simulation including power & link budgets, analysis with Matlab, Excel, Python.
Prior experience managing a small team, either as a Manager or as a Team lead.


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