MEMS Design Engineer

Summary Description:

 Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, has entered into an agreement to acquire a large, multi-national sensor business with global revenues in excess of $250 million per year, and is looking for an experienced and talented MEMS Design Engineer to take on a critical role with expansive responsibilities and play a leading role in enhancing the Research and Development function in a growing organization.

The MEMS Design Engineer will be responsible for working in a fast-paced, market-oriented R&D team environment developing MEMS technology for microphones and related mobile platform applications. The position will have a strong preference for experience with MEMS design, characterization, and modeling/simulation, ensuring other desirable background experiences include MEMS processing and acoustics. This position will also play a key role in offering creative insights and solutions for R&D problems, with direct responsibilities for developing new design concepts and architectures, modeling/simulation, characterization, design and analysis of experiments, and written and oral presentations.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and analysis of MEMS devices.
• Perform FEM modeling and simulation analysis of new design concepts and architectures (solid modeling, mechanical, acoustical, flow dynamics, etc.) using Finite Element Analysis tools including Ansys and COMSOL.
• Contribute device level and package level ideas for new designs and improvements to MEMS technologies and processing.
• Develop analytical models to conduct analysis of multi-physical sensor and actuator interaction.
• Perform a variety of physical, electrical, acoustical, and optical characterization activities on MEMS devices.
• Design critical experiments, analyze data, develop meaningful conclusions, and produce written summaries of results.
• Work independently and collaboratively, assist on assignments with other engineers as needed.

Qualifications, Education, and Experience Required

• MS or PhD degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, or physics preferred).
• 5+ years of MEMS experience in designing MEMS for volume applications.
• Experience creating 3D models.
• FEA modelling skills.
• Knowledge of lumped parameter modelling of MEMS.
• Experience with Thin-Film MEMS.
• Strong diagnostic and analytical skills.
• MEMS device characterization experience.
• MEMS layout & verification.
• Familiarity with common MEMS/CMOS material properties.
• Knowledge of typical MEMS-CMOS interface circuitry.
• Excellent oral and written communication and people skills required.

About Syntiant:

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors. Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com.

One element in our total compensation package is base pay.  The starting base pay for this role is targeted to be between $85,000 - $120,000. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to previous experience and skills acquired prior to joining Syntiant, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company. It is to be expected that candidates will come to us with different sets of skills and experiences and therefore will be paid at different points in the stated range. We recognize that the person(s) we select for hire may be less experienced or more experienced than the role as posted; if this is the case, any updates to available salary ranges will be communicated with candidates during the recruitment process.