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mmTron Overview
mmTron is a growing fabless mmWave startup that designs and manufactures semiconductor products for 5G, fixed wireless access, satellite communications, instrumentation, and defense applications. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., mmTron has design and sales positions throughout North America.
mmTron’s team has more than 36 years of mmWave expertise delivering extremely linear, high output power products with leading worldwide GaAs and GaN foundries and assembly and test providers. Our products enable the highest performance mmWave equipment, extending base station reach to dramatically reduce network infrastructure costs.
mmTron has assembled an impressive array of mmWave experts, investors, and advisors with a senior leadership team having deep experience in RF and mmWave markets. mmWave communications is an emerging, rapidly growing field, so the timing is right to join an exciting new company leading the way.
Equal Opportunity Employer
mmTron is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) / Affirmative Action employer and welcome all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, and any other status protected by law.
Open Positions at mmTron
+ MMIC Product and Applications Engineer
Position Summary
We are looking for a MMIC product and application engineer with a solid background in bringing millimeter wave (mmWave) die and packaged products to production while supporting customer questions and evaluations. This position will work closely with design engineers to support the characterization and qualification of leading-edge products and then provide detailed technical support to enable our customers’ success. As part of a rapidly growing team, this role will report into the engineering organization at the director or vice president level and should be able to work independently and dependably to deliver on commitments. The working environment is fast-paced with a product focus on GaAs and GaN MMICs and packaged versions, which include power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, switches, and distributed wideband amplifiers. The role will allow for significant exposure to and mentoring from distinguished members of the technical staff, who are renowned experts in their fields. This is an outstanding environment for an experienced engineer to expand their skill set and capabilities in an engineering-focused company that encourages and supports career progression.
Responsibilities
• Manage projects through validation, qualification, and release to production.
• Work directly with design engineering, test engineering, operations, and engineering management to ensure designs meet specifications, are robust, and have high yields and margins for volume manufacturing.
• Own datasheet generation and evaluation board sampling activities.
• Characterize devices over nominal conditions and specific customer conditions using PNA-X.
• Design, build, and test evaluation boards to meet customer demands.
• Work with the sales team and customers to support the successful evaluation of mmTron products, answer technical questions, and help resolve any technical issues.
Qualifications Required
• Experience working with mmWave MMIC and packaged products: power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, gain blocks, variable gain amplifiers, distributed amplifiers, power detectors, mixers, attenuators, phase shifters, multipliers, low additive phase noise amplifiers, and VCOs.
• Solid working knowledge of GaAs and GaN MMIC product specifications and qualification requirements.
• Ability to define and manage mmWave PCB layouts and fabrication.
• Familiarity with thermal requirements and methods of thermal analysis.
• Knowledge of characterization equipment and techniques required to characterize mmWave products and a proven ability to characterize products hands-on in the lab.
• * Ability to develop test plans and personally perform or manage technicians to execute characterization testing.
• * Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to concisely summarize highly technical concepts and work closely with customers to help solve technical issues.
• * B.S. or M.S. and at least 5 years of relevant engineering work experience.
Desired Experience
• Ability to create package bonding diagrams and manage contract package and evaluation board assembly.
• Experience managing a small group of product or application engineers.
• Experience working directly with leading external GaN and GaAs foundries.
• Understanding of and experience with SiGe and/or CMOS-based RFIC or MMIC characterization and qualification.
• Experience writing scripts to automate capturing data for characterization (utilizing the PNA-X).
• Well-versed in recent commercial communication signal standards and test characterization methods (e.g., 5G FR2).
Key Words and Phrases
• mmWave, MMIC, product engineering, applications engineering, high-linearity, PA, LNA, GaN, GaAs, evaluation, characterization, customer support, 5G, Satcom
SUBMIT YOUR RESUME →+ Applications Engineering Hardware Manager
Position Summary
We are looking for a motivated Applications Engineering Hardware Manager with a solid background supporting MMIC amplifier products, excellent leadership and teamworking skills, and strong drive to satisfy mmTron’s customers. You will work in a fast paced environment collaborating with Engineering to support product development and validation and Sales supporting key customers.
Responsibilities
• Lead characterization of MMIC amplifier products (operating from 100KHz to 110GHz).
• Develop (through 3rd parties) evaluation hardware for the validation, characterization, and demonstration of company’s products.
• Develop packaging and prototype assembly solutions for company products.
• Create customer documentation, including datasheets and related technical publications.
• Establish and operate engineering lab facilities. Procure, support and operating MMIC test equipment.
Qualifications Required
• Demonstrated experience developing application hardware for high-speed (preferably MMIC) semiconductor products and supporting customers through volume production.
• Established relationships with 3rd parties including PC board design and assembly, mechanical engineering, test equipment and chip prototyping and packaging vendors.
• Solid working knowledge of board design tools (ADS design software including EM simulation Momentum, HFSS, CST).
• Deep knowledge of one or more board design and simulation software packages (e.g. Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics PADS Logic and Layout, Mentor Graphics DxDesigner)
• Familiarity with packaging thermal requirements.
• Experience with characterization equipment and techniques required to characterize high-speed semiconductor products.
• Ability to drive the creation of technical documentation including datasheets, product specs, users guides and white papers.
• Strong oral communication skills with the ability to concisely summarize highly technical concepts both internally and externally to mmTron.
• B.S. plus 10+ years of Applications Engineering experience.
Desired Experience
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Key Words and Phrases
• Applications, Apps, mmWave, MMIC, RFIC, ADS, Momentum, CST, HFSS, Validation, Characterization, PC Board, PADS, Altium, DxDesigner, Technical Writing
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