Principal Engineer, Product Validation

Sitime Corporation•Santa Clara, CA

20h

About The Position

SiTime is the Precision Timing company. Timing is the heartbeat of all electronics, ensuring performance, resilience and scalability. For decades, quartz devices, non-silicon technology, have kept systems in sync, but they struggle in harsher, more demanding environments. MEMS-based Precision Timing delivers greater accuracy, smaller size and resilience. Today, MEMS timing powers over 400 applications, including high-growth ones in AI datacenters, automated driving, industrial and humanoid robots, wearables and IoT. Our semiconductor MEMS programmable solutions offer a rich feature set that enables customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, smaller size, lower power, and better reliability. With more than 4 billion devices shipped, SiTime is changing the timing industry. For more information, visit: www.sitime.com . The Principal Product Validation Engineer will lead and contribute to productization of SiTime’s revolutionary timing devices. In this highly visible role, we are looking for passionate, self-starters who can work cross-functionally to ensure system-level performance of our products and help solve the world’s toughest timing problems. It is not necessary to meet all job requirements to be a qualified candidate for the position.

Requirements

MS or PhD in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. Exceptional candidates with other backgrounds will be considered.
10+ years of experience in the productization of semiconductor sensor-based devices
Experience leading engineering project teams and creating and executing verification and characterization plans.
Strong, fundamental knowledge of mixed signal circuits.
Hands-on experience with electronics lab instrumentation.
Excellent programming skills and prior experience with MATLAB and/or Python.
Strong statistical analysis skills.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with metrology systems for evaluating timing parameters is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Grow and lead a team of engineers responsible for validation, characterization, and release-to-production of MEMS-based timing products.
Interface with cross-functional teams, vendors, and manage projects across different sites.
Plan and execute device verification and characterization.
Work with MEMS and circuit design teams to evaluate new silicon and recommend design improvements for enhanced performance.
Design, develop, and validate PCB test platforms and firmware to enable automated data acquisition & analysis.
Develop and transfer algorithms to final test and production environments.
Perform engineering failure analysis to root cause product issues.
Innovate and prototype system architectures and new technologies for next-generation products.