Lead the design, development, and validation of high‑precision triggering electronics and printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) for Onto Innovation’s capital equipment platforms.
Compensation
Base Salary Range: $115,200.00 - $172,800.00, offered in good faith and based on experience, location, and qualifications. Additional Rewards: Annual bonus opportunities and potential long-term incentives tied to both company and individual success.
Responsibilities
Design and implement high‑precision, low‑latency electrical triggering circuits used across Onto platforms.
Develop deterministic timing architectures for synchronization of optics, motion, sensing, image acquisition, and metrology subsystems.
Define trigger interfaces, electrical standards, and timing specifications for cross‑product reuse.
Lead schematic design, PCB layout reviews, component selection, and design validation for trigger‑related and general‑purpose platform PCBAs.
Ensure compliance with electrical performance requirements, EMI/EMC robustness, thermal constraints, and reliability specifications.
Requirements
BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or related field
Hardware engineers passionate about designing industry-leading CPU and interconnect IP to drive the adoption of RISC-V as the architecture of choice for SOC designs across various vertical applications.
Compensation
Base Pay Range
$205,740.00-$251,460.00
In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for variable/ incentive compensation and/ or equity.
Responsibilities
Work with the architecture team to understand and define power management requirements.
Architect, design and implement core clocking, reset and power management solutions.
Microarchitecture development and specification.
Perform initial sandbox verification, and work with the design verification team to create and execute thorough verification test plans.
Work with a physical implementation team to implement and optimise physical design to meet frequency, area, power goals.
Requirements
BS/MS degree in EE, CE, CS or a related technical discipline
Nice to have: Spyglass
Nice to have: AMBA Interconnect Protocols (AXI, AHB, APB)
Nice to have: AMBA Low Power Protocol Interface
Nice to have: Scala/Chisel, Bluespec, or other language/DSL for configurable hardware
MaxLinear's good faith estimate starting base salary range is: $164,000 to $231,000 Annually
Responsibilities
Own the mixed-signal architecture and top-level design of complex SoCs from product definition through tapeout, qualification, and production release
Lead in-house development and/or third-party integration of high-speed interface and PHY IP
Design and supervise high-speed analog front-end circuits such as transmit drivers, receivers, equalizers, CDR, and serializer/deserializer circuits
Lead design of clock generation and distribution circuits such as PLLs, oscillators, and clock drivers
Design and supervise supporting analog blocks including LDOs, bandgap references, POR/reset generation, bias circuits, comparators, and I/O and ESD structures
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