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Job Summary:
AmberSemi is looking for IC Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer 1 to develop integrated circuits for Solid State Power Applications using CMOS Technology and Analog/Digital Circuits.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct power delivery: DC extraction directly from AC Mains without the use of transformers, rectifiers, or filtering.
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

Location: Dublin, CA

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Mixed-mode integrated circuit design for Solid State Power Applications
• Design and Simulation with Cadence tools
• Behavioral Modeling of Analog and Mixed-Mode circuits
• Work with System Engineers on defining new Product Architectures
• Layout supervision and verification
• Preparation of Test plan
• Product Characterization
• Bench evaluation both at the silicon level and application level
• Design documentation

Required Skills/Abilities:

• BSEE or foreign equivalent with 2+ years of experience, or MSEE or foreign equivalent on analog and mixed signal Integrated Circuit (IC) design
• Thorough understanding of fundamental Analog Building blocks
• Good problem-solving skill in all phases of IC development
• Power Electronics IC design experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with Cadence Design and Simulation tools, and Verilog
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with experience in specification creation, technical report writing and test plans/ instructions.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $130,000-$200,000

Offered Benefits: Medical, Dental, vision, 401K, & Equity

Job Summary:
AmberSemi is looking for IC Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer 1 to develop integrated circuits for Solid State Power Applications using CMOS Technology and Analog/Digital Circuits.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct power delivery: DC extraction directly from AC Mains without the use of transformers, rectifiers, or filtering.
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

Location: Dublin, CA

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Mixed-mode integrated circuit design for Solid State Power Applications
• Design and Simulation with Cadence tools
• Behavioral Modeling of Analog and Mixed-Mode circuits
• Work with System Engineers on defining new Product Architectures
• Layout supervision and verification
• Preparation of Test plan
• Product Characterization
• Bench evaluation both at the silicon level and application level
• Design documentation

Required Skills/Abilities:

• BSEE or foreign equivalent with 2+ years of experience, or MSEE or foreign equivalent on analog and mixed signal Integrated Circuit (IC) design
• Thorough understanding of fundamental Analog Building blocks
• Good problem-solving skill in all phases of IC development
• Power Electronics IC design experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with Cadence Design and Simulation tools, and Verilog
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with experience in specification creation, technical report writing and test plans/ instructions.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $130,000-$200,000

Offered Benefits: Medical, Dental, vision, 401K, & Equity

Job Summary:
The Engineering technician should be well versed in basic electronics as it pertains to power electronics, such as buck regulators, and various passive and semiconductor devices and how they interact and perform in and around the other components within the circuit. Key tasks are outlined below:

• Tune, test and troubleshoot AC/DC power components and systems
• Measure ripple current in a power supply.
• Measure efficiency of a power supply circuit.
• Inductors how do they operate and what are they for in a buck regulator circuit?
• RDS on, Vds, Vgs, what component are they for and how do they affect the circuit?
• Confident with the use of Oscilloscopes for AC and DC system measurements.
• Understand SPI and Serial communications to a debug level.
• Basic understanding of Python and/or Labview programming.
• Familiar with test equipment’s including signal generators/analyzers, power meters and multi-meters etc.
• Follow ESD procedures.
• Work from schematics, work instructions, drawings and operating procedures
• Basic hand tools (screwdrivers, crescent wrenches) will be used.

As the primary device to be tested is a proprietary integrated circuit, knowledge of testing parameters involved in I.C. bring-up is also needed. The daily tasks will be to characterize AC/DC power I.C.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct power delivery: DC extraction directly from AC Mains without the use of transformers, rectifiers, or filtering.
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

Required Experience:

• A.S. Degree preferred but not required.
• Candidate must be a self-starter with little to no handholding.
• Experience testing and characterization of semiconductor devices
• Must be willing to work overtime, day or night shift and week ends

This is a Contracted position:
Pay: $40-$65/ hour

Duration of contract: 4-6 months

Job Summary:
AmberSemi is looking for a Highly creative and motivated ASIC RTL Design Engineer. RTL designers are expected to understand design requirements, integrate existing IP blocks, create new logic, and work with verification, performance, and physical design engineers to bring it to completion.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been   honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

Location: Dublin, CA

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and development of the next generation of IP products.
• Target design to specific technology nodes
• Develop innovative micro-architectures.
• Maintain block-level micro-architecture descriptions.
• Evaluate and understand existing internal and external IP functions and requirements.
• Deliver high-quality RTL code using Verilog, System Verilog
• Create logic and state machines in RTL to implement new functions.
• Create logic in RTL to solve clock, reset, and test issues.
• Modify logic in RTL to correct bugs, performance, and timing issues.
• Collaborate and communicate with management regarding design status, project progress, and issue resolution.
• Utilizes scripting and programming skills to automate design workflows, design checklists, and other deliverables needed to ensure quality designs.
• Work with customers to successfully integrate our products into their designs.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in RTL design
• Understanding of clock domain crossing, reset, and testability issues.
• Ability to debug functional and performance issues to root cause.
• Strong understanding of Verilog, C++, and scripting languages
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality designs.
• Successful tape-out experience
• Mentor, Cadence, or Synopsys simulation tools
• Experience with linting tools, CDC, and formal verification
• Developing complex algorithms, a plus
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to work in a small company environment.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $130,000-$200,000

Offered Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, & Equity

Job Summary:
AmberSemi is looking for an IC Product Engineer to support our ICs in production with yield monitoring/improvement and issue analysis. As part of the Product Engineering team, you will be in charge to plan the validation activity & characterize every IP of the system with the support of the Design team.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct power delivery: DC extraction directly from AC Mains without the use of transformers, rectifiers, or filtering.
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

Location: Dublin, CA

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Coordinate New Product Introduction activities for Analog IC devices
• Define ATE characterization test plans and generate characterization reports.
• Finalize test limits and define proper guard bands based on ATE-bench correlations, GRR, and PVT characterization results.
• Support Test Engineering with test program release activities.
• Automate testing and generate reports of IC validation
• Validate IC functionality and performance according to specification with the design team
• Manage multiple projects and follow up on various tasks to ensure timely support and execution
• Contribute to product qualification with the designers and validation engineers
• Support production flow and solve issues

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Experience in high-volume IC test program development
• In-depth knowledge of the semiconductor manufacturing process. Exposure to different Analog package technologies is considered a plus.
• Solid understanding of Analog, AC, DC and Power fundamentals. Exposure to Analog test methodologies is a plus.
• Experience working with multi-functional teams to define ATE characterization test plans, coordinating data collection, and performing data analysis across PVT.
• Good understanding of GRR analysis, ATE-Bench correlations, guard-banding methodologies and statistics associated with test limit definition.
• Familiar with Product and Package Qualification requirements {HTOL, ESD, LU, etc.)
• Solid background in product qualification
• Validation test and characterization background with data analysis is a great asset

Education and Experience:

• BSc/MSc/PhD in Physics, Electronic Engineering or equivalent
• Strong semiconductor Product and IC Test knowledge
• Knowledge of production yield and product qualification experience
• Strong communication skills
• 5+ years of Industry work experience delivering IC products

Job Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $130,000-$200,000

Offered Benefits: Medical, Dental, vision, 401K, & Equity

Job Summary:
AmberSemi is looking for an IC SOC design engineer to develop disruptive silicon integrated products using innovative, proprietary high voltage, analog-mixed signal & sensing technologies.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct power delivery: DC extraction directly from AC Mains without the use of transformers, rectifiers, or filtering.
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

This role will involve working on IC Architecture feasibility, silicon design, implementation to final product deployment.

Location: Dublin, CA

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the IC Silicon Design, development of analog-mixed signal, digital systems for AC direct power system products.
• Drive the IC Top level architecture definition, design of the analog & digital circuits, subsystems Register Transfer Level (RTL) coding, design, implementation & Verification.
• Perform design & simulation for integration of functional units and subsystems into full chip. 
• Architecture, design, simulate and verify analog mixed-signal circuits for optimum power/speed/area efficiency. 
• Closely work with SOC System architects to Define mixed-signal design specifications.
• Supervise the RTL-to-GDS flow and assist with synthesis and timing closure.
• Drive the chip-level integration, test plan development and verification.
• Work in collaboration with physical design engineers on mixed-signal design chip level planning and integration
• Closely work with and supervise layout/mask designers by providing annotated schematics, floor plans, layout, reliability, and manufacturability design guidelines
• Support the test program development, ship validation, and product life until production maturity.
• Closely work with product platform architects and packaging team for Power Integrity and Power Distribution Network analysis in mixed-signal design applications
• Experience in back-end design verification tools and flows including debugging LVS and DRC issues in collaboration with the layout team.
• Perform early prototyping using FPGA’s, power system modeling, algorithms, analysis, verification, and performance optimization
• Strong Communication skills and the ability to work with a geographically distributed engineering team.

Required Skills /Abilities

• IC SOC design experience using Cadence, Synopsys tools, design methodologies, verification flows to tape-out and silicon characterization/testing.
• IC projects experience in analog-mixed signal, digital circuits & implementation. Design knowledge & implementation in data acquisition systems, A/D & D/A converters is a plus
• IC Project experience in digital design with hardware description languages, silicon implementation using RTL, VerilogA, Verilog, C/C++ and numerical modeling tools-MatLab and Simulink
• Must have a working understanding of power electronics and transistor-level circuits. Working on low power management system design for CPU 7 GPU applications, custom mixed-signal circuits and logic design in advanced CMOS technologies using custom and semi-custom physical design flows
• Skilled hands-on engineer with good lab instrumentation skills
• Proficient in using a variety of test equipment and electronic laboratory instruments
• Experience with microcontrollers, processors and embedded system is a plus

Education and Experience

• Minimum BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering degree
• 5+ years industry work experience delivering IC SOC products with design expertise in analog-mixed signal IP & Digital implementation.

Job Type: Full Time

Salary Range: $130,000-$200,000

Offered Benefits: Medical, Dental, vision, 401K, & Equity

Job Summary:
AmberSemi is looking for a Senior Field Applications Engineer to act as the bridge between external customers, internal product development, and sales teams. This role will specifically be focused on supporting the company’s efforts for technical evaluation of core solutions, applications with partners and supporting the integration of company solutions into final product solutions with the partner for market deployment. AmberSemi is developing disruptive silicon integrated products using proprietary solid-state power technologies.

About The Company and technologies: 
Founded in 2016, Amber Semiconductor is an exciting, young Bay Area company developing disruptive solid-state power technologies. It is breakthrough, patented technology is anchored on three core pillars in silicon chip architecture:

• AC Direct power delivery: DC extraction directly from AC Mains without the use of transformers, rectifiers, or filtering.
• AC Direct Sensing: Realtime and continuous sensing of the state of AC Mains for full ongoing awareness of normal and potential abnormal electricity states
• Indestructible AC Switching: Digital detection and protection of solid-state architecture against the range of destructive electrical conditions, including short circuit, overvoltage, inductive load kickback, overcurrent, and overloads. All while this technology delivers arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today’s standard electro-mechanical solutions only with solid-state, silicon-based solutions. 

These breakthroughs deliver a dramatic improvement in safety, size, reliability, and functionality for every endpoint in building electrical infrastructure and products. 

The company boasts over thirty-seven patent grants secured in the solid-state electrification space. It has also been honored with prestigious industry awards like the CES Innovations 2021 Honoree, a BIG Innovations Award 2021, Time Magazines Best Inventions of 2021, Fast Company’s 2022 Next Big Thing in Tech Award, and a 2023 Gold Edison Award for Innovation and others. The company is well funded and boasts customer engagements with a who is who list of over thirty global semiconductor and electrical products companies. 

Join Amber’s enthusiastic team as we build upon a unique intellectual property base, and power a TRUE Second Electrical Revolution.

Location: Dublin, CA

Duties/Responsibilities: 

• This work will involve combination of lab work with the internal company engineering, product management and sales teams in understanding and defining the company’s technology capabilities and roadmap. This knowledge base will be over-layer with partner product requirements, testing requirements and procedures of various demo platforms and implementing them on-site at partner facilities.
• For partner testing: The in-lab requirements will include working with Amber’s engineering team to understand the exact test set-ups, measurements and why each test is being performed on various demo platforms. This information will then need to be articulated into documentation for internal and external use to allow for future replication and easy understanding of results in Amber’s lab and at partner facilities. Furthermore, you will act as the conduit for testing at partner’s facilities. This will mean traveling with sales, marketing and/or engineering to various customer facilities and following a complete replica of what was performed in Amber’s Lab.
• This requires in all cases an in-depth knowledge into each demonstration platform and how each test will apply to future product development along with adhering to sales strategies. You will need be in direct communication with the customers in their lab, coordinating demos and sending of documentation.
• For customer integration support: You will work with product management and sales teams to support our partners in bringing end products to market with Amber’s technology integrated. This process will include defining customer product requirements as it relates to Amber’s technologies as well as validating the technology fit to those requirements. Then you will support internal teams and external customers in the qualification, and proto-type development of partner products integrating Amber’s technologies. This work will transition to supporting partners final push towards product certification for final release for high volume.
• Travel required for partner testing and customer integration.

 Required Skills/Abilities: 

• Skilled hands-on engineer with good lab instrumentation skills
• Knowledge in electrical circuits, power electronics & power management products
• Proficient in using a variety of test equipment and electronic laboratory instruments.
• Experience with microcontrollers, processors and embedded systems is a plus.
• Experience in a technical applications sales engineer role is a plus.
• Ability to identify requirements before the customer does.
• Excellent organizational, communication & technical writing skills
• Fluent in English

 Education and Experience:

• 3+ year of industry experience
• A BS in Electrical Engineering degree or a college degree
• Work Experience in electrical products is desirable.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $130,000-$200,000

 Offered Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, & Equity