Operations Specialist (Montreal)
About The Position
We are seeking professionals who can help us challenge the status quo of the electronics design industry. We are accelerating the world’s hardware ingenuity by blending generative AI, ML, and novel approaches to electronics simulation and validation. We provide our enthusiastic enterprise customers intelligent and automated access to the most advanced validation tools, eliminating respins and helping engineers of all levels deliver their designs faster, cheaper, and with less waste. We are a small team of innovators passionate about fundamentally improving how electrical engineers deliver electronics designs with higher confidence. Our founders are responsible for creating the largest product development firm in the US and for building Azure Quantum at Microsoft.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or a closely related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Hands-on academic, internship, co-op, project, or professional experience involving electronics, component-level analysis, datasheets, circuit design, testing, validation, or related technical work.
- Comfortable spending the majority of your time executing the work, not just thinking about it.
- Based in or able to commute to Montreal, Quebec (hybrid).
- Eligibility to work on ITAR-controlled and other export-controlled projects strongly preferred.
- Strong electronics knowledge enabling effective communication with practicing engineers.
- Comfort working with package data sheets, component-level analysis, and design data.
- Systems thinking ability to see how individual tasks fit into the broader workflow.
- Process-oriented mindset with a curiosity for finding small improvements.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to keep multiple designs moving in parallel.
- Detail-oriented with proactive issue identification.
- Multi-tasking proficiency managing concurrent designs and priorities.
- Problem-solving focus on identifying and surfacing process inefficiencies.
- Bridge-building skills interfacing between technical and business teams.
- Comfort working as part of a small, tightly-coordinated team where peer review and informal handoffs are the norm.
- Clear communication regarding status, blockers, and deliverables.
Nice To Haves
- Recent graduates and engineers early in their careers are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Eligibility to work on ITAR-controlled and other export-controlled projects strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Execute design ingestion, processing, and delivery alongside the Senior Operations Lead.
- Absorb operational load so engineering can stay focused on tooling improvements, and provide parallel capacity as we scale.
- Execute hands-on data entry, component analysis, and design processing tasks.
- Shepherd individual designs through the pipeline, tracking progress and flagging bottlenecks.
- Participate in peer review of processed designs to maintain quality standards.
- Help refine and document standard operating procedures as the team learns what works.
- Analyze processing times and surface operational inefficiencies.
- Provide structured feedback to the development team leads on tooling friction and improvement opportunities based on hands-on user experience.
- Support stakeholder communication regarding status and delivery timelines.
- Contribute to operational metrics and dashboards.
- Build toward ownership of on-prem, ITAR-eligible and export-controlled operations as the company stands up that capability.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
