Research and Development Positions

Orora Design Technologies, Inc. is a rapidly growing technology startup headquartered in Redmond Washington. We are developing software tools for analog, RF and custom digital integrated circuit design. We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join in our dynamic research and development team, to engage in software tool development, circuit design, and model development.

The candidate must have good written and verbal communication skills; be self-motivated and able to work independently. We provide exciting growth and learning opportunities for the minds seeking challenge, variety.

Circuit Modeling and Application Engineers (2)

Responsibility

• Be a member of a design team involved in 90nm/65nm analog circuit design and development (PLL, ADC and SerDes) to perform independently the following design tasks: behavioral model development, test bench development, model validation, model calibration with circuits and silicon, design and model documentation, and application note development.
• Work with Orora customers (analog design teams world-wide) to apply Orora design and modeling tools to ensure customers’ design success. Specific tasks involve customer circuit model evaluation, benchmarking, and on-site support.
• Provide feedback to Orora Engineering teams on design tool development and enhancements and bug fixing.

Knowledge base

• IC design with emphasis on analog/mixed-signal systems
• Familiarity with ADC, PLL, SerDes design is a plus
• Solid knowledge in behavioral modeling concept and techniques

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Cadence Design Environment (ADE and Spectre simulator)
• Experience with behavioral modeling language (Verilog-A, etc)
• Programming skill in Matlab
• 2+ years of related product experience and/or research experience in behavioral modeling techniques or mixed-signal circuit design.

Education

• BS with 2 years+ industry experience, or Master's with 1 year+ industry design experience desired

Travel Requirement

• Varies and can be 30%

Analog Design and Application Engineers (2)

Responsibility

• Be a member of a design team involved in 90nm/65nm analog circuit design and development (PLL, ADC and SerDes) to perform independently the following design tasks: Circuit topology selection, Simulation & analysis, Physical design, Design checking & verification, design documentation, and application note development.
• Work with Orora customers (analog design teams world-wide) to apply Orora design tools to ensure customers’ design success. Specific tasks involve customer circuit evaluation, benchmarking, on-site support.
• Provide feedback to Orora engineering teams on design tool product development, enhancement and bug fixing.

Knowledge base

• Previous design experience in one or more of the following: voltage references, opamps, high speed I/O circuitry, ADC/DAC circuitry, PLL circuitry
• Basic understanding of CMOS semiconductor physics
• Basic understanding of digital CMOS circuit design

Skills

• Cadence Design Environment
• SPICE Simulators (Spectre/SpectreRF, Eldo, Hspice)
• IC Design methodology
• Script programming a plus (Perl, C-shell, Skill, Ocean, etc.)
• Hands on circuit testing a plus
• Team player
• Strong written & verbal communication skills

Education

• BS with 2 years+ industry experience, or Master's with 1 year+ industry design experience desired

Travel Requirement

• Varies and can be 30%

Software Development Engineers (2)

Responsibility

• This person will be responsible for software development for Orora’s industry-leading analog and custom digital integrated circuit design tools. The specific responsibility includes the enhancements to Orora’s C/C++ code base and the development and test of new modules based on product specification.

Qualifications

1. Programming language:

   Java, C++, or any other object-oriented programming language. Fluent use of basic data structures and algorithms. Familiar with utilities of string handling, I/O handling, error handling, event handling. Familiar with other Java utilities and libraries is a plus.

2. Scripting:

   C Shell, Perl. Cadence SKILL is a plus.

3. User Interface design:

   Experience with Graphical User Interface (GUI) design. Fluent use of Model-View-Controller (MVC) concept when developing GUI. Experience with Swing utilities and Java graphics is a plus.

4. Operating systems:

   Working experience of Linux/UNIX operating systems. Efficient and accurate use of system utilities (system calls). Understand concepts of process and thread, related mechanism. Installation of software tools in Linux/UNIX. Administration and network maintenance knowledge is a plus.

5. Software engineering:

   Experience with Concurrent Version Systems (CVS). Experience with Eclipse SDK is plus.

6. Electronic circuits

   Basic knowledge of analog and digital circuits (undergraduate level). Experience with schematic capture, netlisting, simulation, Verilog/VHDL is a plus.

Education:

• BS with 2 years+ industry software development experience, or Master's with 1 year+ industry software development experience desired.

Research and Development Engineer

Responsibility

• This person will be responsible for circuit modeling development for Orora’s industry-leading analog and custom digital integrated circuit design tools. The specific responsibility includes the enhancements to Orora’s modeling methodologies and the development and test of new modules based on product specification.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and deep understanding of optimization algorithms (global and local optimization, mathematical programming) as demonstrated by graduate-level research projects and course work , and/or
• Knowledge and deep understanding of circuit simulation techniques (numerical nonlinear differential equation solving) and model abstraction techniques as demonstrated by graduate-level research projects and course work
• Knowledge in statistical data processing and design of experiments (DOE)
• Experience in analog circuit product development is a plus.

Education

• BS with 5+ years of industry experience on optimization/simulation and analog circuit product development, or
• MS with 3+ years of industry experience on optimization/simulation and analog circuit product development, or
• PhD

Senior Software Test Engineer/Software Test Manager (1)

Responsibility

• Responsible for software testing, quality assurance and product release of Orora’s analog and custom circuit design tools
• Work with Orora product development groups to develop test plans based on functional specs
• Work with Orora designers, application engineers, and customers to develop test cases in HSPICE, SPECTRE and other SPICE variants
• Manage and develop regression testing for optimization engines, modeling and verification engines and GUIs by working with customers, R&D developers
• Coordinate work between the QA, Product development and Application engineering teams in terms of QA
• Summarize daily/weekly/monthly status of coverage, performance and quality, and failure analysis, find the root cause and assign to appropriate engineers

Knowledge base

• Analog circuits and SPICE simulators
• Software testing and scripting

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux operating system environments required
• Some working knowledge of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools and IC design flows is a plus
• Experience in software testing and graphical user interface testing is highly desirable
• Experience in shell scripting, Perl, Makefiles
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills; Ability to work well with teams

Education

• BS with 5+ years of industry experience on industry software product test
To apply for the positions, please send resume to: jobs@orora.com