New Startup looking to expand rapidly!

I am working with a cutting edge start up in the Boston area that is working in the Virtualization/Cloud Computing arena. They have very good funding in place and are planning on adding roughly 28 people by the end of 2009. Right now, the most critical positions are Kernel Developers with Hypervisor experience. Below is a job description and please feel free to contact me directly.

Looking for someone who has a deep understanding of the Linux kernel and understands the interactions between a paravirtualized kernel and the hypervisor. The work involves porting & developing kernel level software in a virtualized (XEN) environment. Experience with x86/x86_64 task switching and x86/x86_64 memory management is required. Experience with the internals of XEN or other hypervisor technology is an advantage.

Ross@hightechnh.com

Bad news for the Semiconductor industry

TSMC is reporting a hiring freeze. Applied Materials cutting 1800 jobs. National Semiconductor cutting 5% of their workforce. How much longer will it last??

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/business/chip.php

New Digital ASIC positions in MA!!

I have several brand new Digital ASIC roles with a client in MA. This is a solid, public company with a great reputation! Below are the detailed descriptions, please feel free to forward your resume directly to me at ross@hightechnh.com

Location: Westford, MA

Summary

The Westford office seeks an experienced (BS +10, MS +8 years) Networking Architect (System/ASIC) to work on the next generation of high speed networking products. Experience with networking related designs and specific experience with QOS, queuing, and scheduling is required.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include system architecture, ASIC definition, micro-architecture, and project leadership. This position will require a modest amount of travel to Sunnyvale to interact and collaborate with other corporate architects. Additional responsibilities include Verilog RTL coding and synthesis, working closely with Design and Verification engineers to ensure design quality and involvement with PD engineers to ensure solid implementation and timing closure.

Will be a primary member of a team responsible for executing project deliverables and processes necessary to successfully specify, develop, and release to production highly integrated ASICs.

Primary interfaces include architecture, marketing, design, verification, product & test engineering, and other hardware and software development groups. Must have previous experience in organizations with custom / semi-custom CMOS ASIC designs. Experience required in RTL coding, verification, gate level simulation, and associated tools. Experience in physical design (place and route, static timing analysis, package selection and design for test) is a plus.

Job Requirements

Qualifications

We are looking for a positive, energetic candidate who would welcome the challenge of working for a leading edge, growing company. The position will involve close, consultative working relationships with engineers from other teams. An outgoing personality and a collaborative spirit is required.

Required skills include:

• Design Experience

System and ASIC architecture for networking products
Knowledge of ASIC development tools, physical design tools, and
programming languages, QOS, packet queuing, and scheduling experience

Other desirable skills

SystemC, Vera, or equivalent
C/C++
Scripting with Perl and/or TCL
Large ASIC floorplanning and timing closure
Exceptional written & verbal communication skills

The Silicon Development group develops high-speed, multi-million gate ASICs for routers, firewalls, and other networking products. To deliver on-time and error-free, high performing, scalable, lowest cost, power efficient SILICON that is widely-deployable and beats the competition.

Location: Westford, MA

Summary

The Westford office seeks an experienced (BS +6, MS +4 years) ASIC design engineer on the next generation of high speed networking products. Experience with networking related designs is preferred.

The engineer in this position will be responsible for designing and verifying sections within our multi-million+ gate next-generation SOCs. These high performance designs will be part of the next generation of high performance network infrastructure systems.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include Verilog RTL coding and synthesis, working closely with other design and verification engineers to ensure design quality and with PD engineers to ensure routable implementation and timing closure.

Candidate will be part of a team responsible for executing project deliverables and processes necessary to successfully specify, develop, and release to production highly integrated ASICs.

Primary interfaces include architecture, design, verification, product & test engineering, and other hardware and software development groups. Must have previous experience in organizations with custom / semi-custom CMOS ASIC designs. Experience required in RTL coding, formal verification, gate level simulation, debug and associated tasks. Experience in physical design (place and route, static timing analysis, package selection and design for test) is a plus.

Additional responsibilities
RTL development from concept to production
Participate in review of design implementation for optimal design tradeoffs and
coding styles
Ensure completed assignments meet project deadlines and departmental and
corporate goals
Participate in methodology improvement

Requirements

Qualifications

We are looking for positive, energetic candidates who would welcome the challenge of working for a leading edge, growing company. The position will involve close, consultative working relationships with engineers from other teams. An outgoing personality and a collaborative spirit is required.

Required skills include
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
Knowledge of ASIC development tools, physical design tools, and
programming languages
Verilog, Synopsys
Ability to speak, listen and write effectively
Ability to work well with others, across geographical boundaries

Other desirable skills
SystemC, or equivalent
C/C++
Scripting with Perl and/or TCL
Large ASIC floor-planning and timing closure

Location: Westford, MA

Summary

The Westford office seeks an experienced (BS +6, MS +4 years) ASIC design verification engineer on the next generation of high speed networking products. Experience with networking related designs is preferred.

The engineer in this position will be responsible for verifying sections within our multi-million+ gate next-generation SOCs. These high performance designs will be part of the next generation of high performance network infrastructure systems.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include writing test plans, building verification test benches, and writing / executing / debugging tests and working closely with system architects and design engineers to ensure design quality.

Candidate will be part of a team responsible for executing project deliverables and processes necessary to successfully specify, develop, and release to production highly integrated ASICs.

Primary interfaces include architecture, design, verification, product & test engineering, and other hardware and software development groups. Must have previous experience in organizations with custom / semi-custom CMOS ASIC designs. Experience required in RTL coding, verification, gate level simulation, and associated tools. Experience in physical design (place and route, static timing analysis, package selection and design for test) is a plus.

Additional responsibilities
Responsible for design verification from concept to production
Develop detailed and comprehensive test plans
Develop verification infrastructure
Timely execution of test plans
Participate in review of design verification coding and coverage metrics
Ensure completed assignments meet project deadlines and departmental and corporate goals
Participate in methodology improvements

Requirements

We are looking for positive, energetic candidates who would welcome the challenge of working for a leading edge, growing company. The position will involve close, consultative working relationships with engineers from other teams. An outgoing personality and a collaborative spirit is required.

Required skills include
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
Knowledge of ASIC verification tools, scripting and programming languages
Must be fluent in Verilog, C, and C++
SystemC knowledge is a plus
Ability to speak, listen and write effectively
Ability to work well with others, across geographical boundaries

Any interested parties, please forward your resume to me directly at ross@hightechnh.com

Lack of posts, inactivity!

I follow the traffic to this blog Religiously. I thank all of those people or "returning visitors" for continuing to visit this site. You may have noticed that as of late my posts have declined in frequency, content and quality. Here's the deal.... I recently registered a new domain, www.themadrecruiter.com and have been diligently working on getting this site up and running, but I want to get it right. It's going to take some time because I am incorporating flash, streaming video, industry specific discussions and live chat, as well as the ability to post "video resumes!" I ask that you please be patient but at the same time know that I am still "recruiting" full time and have many great opportunities.
I understand that the markets are crashing, cash is tight, investors have lost over 3 TRILLION dollars in the last year! However, the fact of the matter is that companies are still hiring!! I have numerous positions for verification engineers, product engineers, applications engineers, test engineers, etc!! Problem is that none of these roles are for new college grads. I need people with 5+ years experience specifically in the semiconductor/photonics industry..
I will continue to do my best to keep you all up to date with recent job orders and the latest "inside" news that you may not get anywhere else. But let me assure you that when my new website is up and running, it will be the most comprehensive, cutting edge, innovative and "outside the box" website you have seen! It's going to take some time, so please bear with me..

If you would like notification when this new site is active, please e-mail me with your contact info at ross@hightechnh.com or leave me a comment with your e-mail below..

3 new positions with my client in southern NH

These are three freshly created positions with my client in southern, NH. Please contact me directly if you are interested in hearing more or seeing a full job description.

1: The firmware/software engineer will mainly do, on a day-to-day basis, SOFTWARE

- write code for microcontrollers and develop "RF tuning" algorithm

- write code to control RF test equipment (spectrum analyzer, vector analyzer)

- develop graphic interfaces

- needs to be very responsive

2: The electronics engineer will mainly do, on a day-to-day basis, HARDWARE

- develop boards with microcontrollers, DC/DC converters, ADC, from schematic to board layout and test in the lab

- develop test setups

- write firmware and software to control the microprocessors and other equipment

For both of these positions, familiarity with wireless market (maily GSM, CDMA, UMTS) is important

3: Product Engineer/Test Engineer
-Talk with contractors and suppliers
-Define the most cost effective solutions for test
- Coordinate with departments to make sure things are getting done on schedule
- Must have a good understanding of Silicon
(This is best described as a "Product Engineer" with Test experience.

Intersil Acquires Kenet!!

It is being reported that Intersil has acquired Kenet for an undisclosed amount. Full report:

MILPITAS, CA, September 30, 2008 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kenet, Incorporated, a privately-held, fabless semiconductor company with leading technology in the design and manufacture of high speed, extremely low power data converters.

Kenet’s innovative FemtoCharge® CMOS technology yields high performance and ultra-low power analog-to-digital converters in an extremely small die area. The size and power advantages of Kenet’s data converters enable increased functionality in a variety of industrial and communications products such as portable digital oscilloscopes and software defined radios.

“Intersil remains committed to key strategic acquisitions to broaden our product portfolio,” said Dave Bell, Intersil’s Chief Executive Officer. “Kenet has developed the world’s highest performance analog-to-digital converters with power consumption at a fraction of those currently on the market. This gives Intersil important technology leadership and access to many previously un-served markets.”

“We are very pleased to be a part of the Intersil family,” said Phill LoPresti, Kenet’s Chief Executive Officer. “Having access to Intersil’s global resources will accelerate our entrance into the data converter market and provides an innovative technology platform for many new products.”

The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the merger. The acquisition adds an additional two million dollars of operating expenses per quarter, and is expected to become accretive in 2010. Intersil may record a one-time charge to operating income for purchased in-process research and development expenses when the closing occurs. The amount of that charge, if any, has not yet been determined. Closing of the merger is expected to be completed within days. Signal Hill acted as advisors for Kenet on the transaction.

New positions opened with my client in San Jose

I was just contacted by the Sr. Director Engineering for one of my clients in the Bay area. His team is in need of several Verification Engineers including team leads.. I need someone with 10+ years experience who has experience in "verification infrastructure development." C, C++ based transactors or generator/checker development. I am interested in talking with any verification engineers that have this type of experience and are interested in hearing more! Please contact me directly at ross@hightechnh.com