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Semiconductor solutions provider to leading-edge communications companies that drive innovation and convergence in voice, data and wireless networks is seeking a talented Analog Design Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities
Responsible for the development of analog blocks and top level analog integration for consumer audio products. Candidate defines and implements optimal analog design supporting best in class audio performance coupled with low power and aggressive die area. Innovative implementation and analog architecture is encouraged.

Requirements
- MSEE with 5+ yrs experience and involvement in multiple tapeouts
- Experience with the development of analog blocks for audio products that may include ADC, DAC, bandgap reference circuits, phase locked loops, analog I/O buffers, and analog comparators
- This person is familiar with analog CAD tool usage, such as SPICE and Cadence Virtuoso schematic capture
- Ability to write UNIX scripts a plus

Analog Design Engineer - Austin, TX (TSP-0009)

Semiconductor company, an industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, is searching for a number of Analog Design Engineers to join their R&D organization.

Responsibilities
Detailed design of analog/mixed-signal circuits, including design capture, layout, test, evaluation and debugging of prototype ICs and design support for mass production. Expected to play lead role in product definition and be responsible for designing significant blocks of chip, including chip architecture. Essential Functions: - Architects, designs and verifies circuits, logic, systems, algorithms, etc. to meet product requirements. - Determines design approaches and parameters. - Develops innovative new designs for patenting or protecting as trade secret. - Demonstrates good judgment in solving a broad range of issues, based on an advanced understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures. - Responsible for custom layout, including overseeing the work of layout designers. - Conducts evaluation of design results by laboratory measurements of ICs. - Reports on design results through design reviews, in accordance with company quality requirements and resolves action items generated as a result of these reviews. - Attends design reviews to provide input and learn from other designers' experiences. - Researches design techniques through technical publications and seminars. - Supports marketing in product definition. - Supports efficient test program development. - Supports product engineering to meet manufacturing/production needs. - Supports applications engineering to meet customer needs. - Oversees and mentors other engineers in either a technical or project lead role. - Having wide-ranging experience uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. - Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires and in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. - Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate the activities of other personnel.

Requirements
Education and/or Experience: A technology-related bachelor's degree or equivalent training and 8 years of related experience. An advanced degree may reduce the minimum experience required. Graduate coursework is desirable. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals - Knowledge of complex AC/DC analysis (poles, zeros, compensation) - Advanced signal analysis knowledge - Advanced parasitic analysis knowledge (capacitance, resistance, power grid) - Advanced MOS Device modeling skills (noise, excess thermal noise, DIBL) - Advanced knowledge of CMOS fabrication processes - Advanced knowledge of MOS transistors and analog/digital circuit design - Advanced design skills in the following areas: - Low-noise circuits - High-speed circuits - Building blocks (e.g., OPAMP, gm-C filters, switch capacitors, ADC, and DAC, state-machines, bus interfaces) - Phase detectors, ring oscillators, LC-VCOs, PLLs, DSPs, microcontrollers, memories - Advanced understanding of layout tradeoffs for performance and size - Design implementation skills (e.g., custom layout, synthesis -> auto place and route flow) - Proficiency in layout verification, DRC, LVS - Knowledge of scripting/language (perl, shell, tcl, skill) - Advanced laboratory measurement skills (analog, digital, RF-as req.)

Sr. Audio Systems Software Engineer - Austin, TX (TSP-0007)

Responsibilities
Senior Software Engineer with Windows kernel development experience and technical leadership experience. The Audio Systems Software Engineer is expected to provide technical expertise and leadership in all areas related to PC audio software. This is a software design and implementation position working with PC Audio device drivers, user applications and property panels, and audio signal processing solutions. This position is primarily focused on support for the Microsoft Vista operating system and is responsible for developing key components required by the new audio subsystem design of this OS. Position also includes development and support for legacy OS platforms.
- Technical leadership role with PC audio software team.
- Design, implement, test, and document software components.
- Participate in feasibility analysis and requirements definition.
- Signal processing, middleware, and user interface.

Requirements
- Ability to review a design and provide accurate technical and schedule assessments.
- Ability to debug issues. Ability to analyze problems and synthesis solutions.
- Ability to guide less senior engineers.

- Ability to accurately document and communicate designs.
- Ability to prioritize and delegate.

Preferred Skills:
- Kernel level debugging.
- Audio Driver development expertise particularly WDM.
- Experience with COM interfaces and development.
- Understanding of Windows memory management and DMA.
- General knowledge and experience with computer audio sub-system (HDA and AC97).
- DSP Algorithm experience, particularly audio.

Experience:
Education and/or Experience: A technology-related bachelor's degree or equivalent training and 8 years of related experience. An advanced degree may reduce the minimum experience required. Graduate coursework is desirable. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals - Knowledge of complex AC/DC analysis (poles, zeros, compensation) - Advanced signal analysis knowledge - Advanced parasitic analysis knowledge (capacitance, resistance, power grid) - Advanced MOS Device modeling skills (noise, excess thermal noise, DIBL) - Advanced knowledge of CMOS fabrication processes - Advanced knowledge of MOS transistors and analog/digital circuit design - Advanced design skills in the following areas: - Low-noise circuits - High-speed circuits - Building blocks (e.g., OPAMP, gm-C filters, switch capacitors, ADC, and DAC, state-machines, bus interfaces) - Phase detectors, ring oscillators, LC-VCOs, PLLs, DSPs, microcontrollers, memories - Advanced understanding of layout tradeoffs for performance and size - Design implementation skills (e.g., custom layout, synthesis -> auto place and route flow) - Proficiency in layout verification, DRC, LVS - Knowledge of scripting/language (perl, shell, tcl, skill) - Advanced laboratory measurement skills (analog, digital, RF-as req.)

Windows Device Driver Developer- Austin, TX (TSP-0006)

Semiconductor solutions provider to leading-edge communications companies that drive innovation and convergence in voice, data and wireless networks is seeking a talented Software Engineers to join their team.

Responsibilities
Windows device driver developer, with experience in WDM for XP/Vista. The Device Driver Developer is expected to provide technical knowledge and understanding for the development of PC Audio device drivers, both in support of new HDA semiconductor devices as well as maintenance of existing HDA and AC/97 devices. This position is dependent upon extensive experience with both Windows XP and Windows Vista device driver models, memory management, and inter-process communications. Contributing member of the PC audio software team. Design, implement, test, and document device driver solutions. Participate in feasibility analysis and requirements definition.

Requirements
Ability to review a software or new device specification, and provide accurate technical, risk, and schedule assessments. Ability to analyze, debug, and prototype solutions. Ability to accurately document and communicate designs. Kernel-level debug and reverse engineering. Compliance with Windows system and device signature/logo process Experience: Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering or equivalent professional experience WDM device driver development experience Preferred Skills: Audio device driver development Understanding of DRM and other content protection solutions. General knowledge and understanding of stress, performance, and quality tests included with the Windows Logo Program. Experience with mixed signal data acquisition and analysis tools.

Sr. Architect, Storage Management - Bay Area, CA (TSP-0011)

Well funded, Start-Up Engineering company working on cutting edge data management solutions that unifies archiving, compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery is seeking a talented Software Engineers to join their team.

Responsibilities
This individual will architect multi-tier enterprise class storage management systems and
associated applications. This individual will be responsible for the architecture and design
of these enterprise level storage management application products with comprehensive
coverage of all the administration, deployment and configuration aspects, as well as the
multi-node server side infrastructure and multi-volume storage infrastructure and all the
associated storage management applications. This individual will also be responsible for
ensuring high standards in the design and implementation leading to the timely delivery
of quality releases that meet or exceed the company expectations.

Requirements
• Significant past experience architecting, designing and delivering enterprise level
storage management solutions
• Established track record driving the architecture, design and evolution of multiple
versions of multiple products
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance for a team of 10+
developers
• Some startup background or from a company with aggressive “small company”
culture
• Involved with architecting, designing and delivering mission critical and scalable
storage management applications
• Experience with collaborative onshore /offshore or distributed non-stop software
development teams
• Significant experience with architecting solutions leveraging SAN, NAS, DAS
storage and related storage management technologies
• Experience with backup applications, CDP solutions and DR solutions
• Knowledge of native storage replication and volume snapshot technologies and
experience with vendor specific implementations
• Knowledge of HSM and tiered storage architectures and experience with vendor
specific implementations
• Experience with distributed systems, multi-threading, inter-process
communication, network programming and synchronization techniques on the
Microsoft Windows platform
• Experience with Microsoft enterprise platforms and applications and experience
with Microsoft development environment
• Strong understanding of robustness, usability, scalability and performance
• Windows Programming (C++, COM, .NET, C#, XML, ADO, SQL) experience
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange ESE and VSS
APIs highly desirable

Sr. Software Engineer, Storage Management - Bay Area, CA (TSP-0012)

Responsibilities
This individual will design and develop multi-tier enterprise class storage management systems and associated applications. This individual will be responsible for the design and development of these enterprise level storage management application products with comprehensive coverage of all the administration, deployment and configuration aspects, as well as the multi-node server side infrastructure and multi-volume storage infrastructure and all the associated storage management applications. This individual will also be responsible for ensuring high standards in the design and implementation leading to the timely delivery of quality releases that meet or exceed the company expectations.

Requirements
• Significant past experience designing, developing and delivering enterprise level storage management solutions
• Some startup background or from a company with aggressive “small company” culture
• Involved with designing, developing and delivering mission critical and scalable storage management applications
• Experience with collaborative onshore /offshore or distributed non-stop software development teams
• Significant experience with architecting solutions leveraging SAN, NAS, DAS storage and related storage management technologies
• Experience with backup applications, CDP solutions and DR solutions
• Knowledge of native storage replication and volume snapshot technologies and experience with vendor specific implementations
• Knowledge of HSM and tiered storage architectures and experience with vendor specific implementations
• Experience with distributed systems, multi-threading, inter-process communication, network programming and synchronization techniques on the Microsoft Windows platform
• Experience with Microsoft enterprise platforms and applications and experience with Microsoft development environment
• Strong understanding of robustness, usability, scalability and performance
• Windows Programming (C++, COM, .NET, C#, XML, ADO, SQL) experience
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange ESE and VSS APIs highly desirable