(ASIC - Data Center), Design Engineer

Socionext US; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company is seeking a Design Engineer for a Marketing role within their Data Center business. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in data center networking and storage products, along with a strong understanding of ASIC design. Responsibilities include developing market requirements and advocating IP offerings. This is a full-time position based in Milpitas, California, offering a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with data center networking and storage products.
• Excellent understanding of ASIC design and manufacturing flows.
• Ability to guide products through development with varied goals.

Responsibilities

• Create Data Center market technologies inflexion insights.
• Develop Market Requirements Document (MRD) by engaging with customers.
• Advocate IP offerings roadmap to customers and collect feedback.

Skills

Data center networking

Storage applications

ASIC design

Financial tools (ROI, NPV)

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in EE

Master’s Degree preferred

Job description

Base pay range

$170,000.00/yr - $210,000.00/yr

Overview

Socionext Inc., world’s second largest fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops and delivers leading edge System-on-Chip custom silicon solutions to global customers. The company is focused on datacenter, compute server, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, automotive and industrial automation market segments that drive today’s leading-edge services and applications. Socionext combines world-class expertise, deep enterprise class product development experience, and an extensive IP portfolio to provide differentiating solutions. Socionext Inc. is headquartered in Shin-Yokohama, and has offices in Japan, United States, Europe and Asia.

Role

We are seeking a Design Engineer looking for a Marketing role within our Data Center business.

Responsibilities

• Create Data Center market technologies inflexion insights
• Develop Market Requirements Document (MRD) by engaging with market leading customers and capturing technology needs, systems roadmaps
• Study emerging market and industry technology trends
• Develop datacenter business opportunities and win strategies
• Advocate IP offerings roadmap to customers and collect feedback
• Work closely with management to drive all phases of customer design wins and execution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE, Masters preferred
• 8+ years of experience with data center networking, storage and server products (knowledge of data center interconnects)
• Must have experience in networking and storage industry. In depth knowledge of Storage applications is required. Familiarity with solid state storage is a plus.
• Requires an excellent understanding of ASIC design and manufacturing flows, including a good grasp of the competitive landscape
• Knowledge required – ASIC Marketing, CNICs/HBAs, PCIe, NVMe, Flash, SSD, SATA, SAS, iSCSI
• Ability to guide products through development, including the definition and trade off analysis of architectures and new features for the components required for Data Center ASIC
• Ability to lead with varied goals and objectives to achieve business unit’s direction and purpose
• Ability to use financial tools such as ROI and NPV analysis to build business cases.
• Teamwork, dedication, strong communications and interpersonal skills
• Some travel ~10%

Additional information

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering, Design, and Marketing
• Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing