Career Openings in Irvine, CA
Systems Engineer
Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Solutions and Platform Marketing
Electronics Lab Manager, Validation
Senior Analog Design Engineer
Senior ASIC Design Engineer
Software Development Manager
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Systems Engineer
Solarflare is establishing a performance measurement and analysis capability at its Irvine office. Initially hiring one person to lead the establishment of a performance measurement lab. The role will include liaison with our existing system engineering team which is based in Cambridge to first replicate our in house performance testing methodology and systems in the Irvine office, then collaboratively to expand on our performance measurement and analysis tools company wide.
The specific tasks to be assigned to the Irvine based performance lab include:
- Competitive performance testing of Solarflare products over a suite of industry standard benchmarks, server and network configurations.
- Publication of validated performance data and liaison with Solarflare marketing to produce whitepapers and other external collateral.
- Providing feedback to Solarflare core development teams on performance related observations.
- Participation in large scale application level benchmarking e.g SPEC / STAC / Hadoop projects. In most cases this will require project coordination and use of remote infra-structure.
- Development tasks relating to Solarflare authored benchmark suite and Solarflare automated environments.
Desired Skills & Experience:
The candidate will report to the CTO of Solarflare and should possess some or all of the following attributes:
- Degree (preferably higher) with strong numeric / experimental background - science, math, engineering
- Logical thinking, clear concise documentation and reporting skills, good verbal communication skills
- Familiar with network and system administration
- Experience with Linux, VMWare, KVM, Windows, Solaris operating systems
- Coding skills: C/Python/C++/Java
- Experience in performance tuning and benchmarking
All candidates should be self-starting, prepared to show initiative and enjoy working in a fast paced environment where performance is always critical.
Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Solutions and Platform Marketing
Location Flexible: Irvine, CA, San Jose, San Francisco, London (UK)
This is a senior single-contributor position that offers the successful candidate the potential for a high value impact on the company's revenue plan and its influence on the market. We are looking for a senior technical marketer who can present the value proposition of Solarflare's ApplicationOnload Engine as a platform for application development for multiple use cases ranging from financial services, to network security, to software defined networks.
Required experience and technical knowledge:
- Technical knowledge of data center networking and high performance computing products and architectures
- Technical knowledge of networking protocols, operating systems: Ethernet, TCP/IP, Multicast, Linux, virtualization, cloud, routing/switching, and software defined networks (SDNs)
- Ability to uncover product, market, or technology transitions in target vertical segments that open the opportunity for sales of the Solarflare products in general and ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE) as an embedded platform
- Ability to present and communicate solutions to both senior executives and technical audiences
- Proven ability to prioritize effectively and execute on multiple simultaneous projects and partnerships
- Proven ability to build ecosystems with IHV and ISV partners
- Highly desirable: Technical knowledge of networking hardware (ASIC/FPGA/RTL) and the application development process (PRD to functional spec to delivered product)
- Highly desirable: Experience with the Altera FPGA industry and market: customers, products, tools, services, ecosystem
Specific responsibilities include:
- Find and build relationships with partners who will deliver applications, tools, services, and IP blocks for the Solarflare open ApplicationOnloadEngine platform
- Work directly with partners to create joint technical sales tools (white papers, application notes, test reports) in order to facilitate the sales and deployment of Solarflare products
- Work directly with Solarflare engineering (California and Cambridge, UK) and major OS and OS-V vendors to enable roadmap syncs, timely certifications, and needed customer facing collateral (application notes, test reports)
- Develop and present Solarflare technical messages and value propositions at trade shows and webinars
- Lead and support the technical marketing event program including: trade shows, webinars and other events
Other skills:
- Ability to thrive in an environment requiring significant multitasking and context switching
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across functional groups and with single contributors as well as with first and second level managers.
Education:
MBA desirable but not required.
Electronics Lab Manager, Validation
Responsibilities:
- Hands-on testing of Semiconductor ICs using test equipment and instrumental control software over different voltages and temperatures.
- Lab Equipment - inventory control, tracking, labeling, calibration, and repairs.
- Lab supplies - maintain and request supplies.
- Enforce and adhere to ESD procedures.
- Data Management and reporting
- Maintain spreadsheets and write reports
- Matlab programming and Labview programming.
- Programming for GPIB driven lab equipment.
Requirements:
- Test experience with oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, volt meters, and temperature forcing systems such as Temptronic ThermoStream equipment.
- Experience with programming instrumental control software Matlab and Labview
Preferred Skills:
- Experience as a lab Manager
- Experience with Unix a plus
- Soldering skills preferred
Senior Analog Design Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design and verification of CMOS analog and mixed signal circuits at the transistor level Concentration will be on PLL and SerDes design
- Develop analog cell specifications and architectures
- Input schematics and run spice simulations
- Present simulation results at design reviews
- Develop and verify verilog-A/Verilog-D models of analog circuits
- Simulate functionality of analog circuits using Verilog-D/verilog-A
- Lab testing and debug
Requirements:
- 8+ years of direct hands-on design experience with high frequency PLL's (>1GHz VCO's)
- Experience designing all portions of PLL's, bandgaps, linear voltage regulators, opamps
- Experience designing Serdes including CDR's, CTLE and DFE circuits
- Experience designing Inductors
- Proficient with Verilog-D/Verilog-A
- Experience with analog layout techniques and ability to work closely with layout team
- Design experience with CMOS 40nm and/or 28nm technology
- Experience with Cadence analog design and simulation tools a must, prefer Cadence version 6.1 experience
- BSEE required, MSEE preferred
Preferred Skills:
- Experience using Spiral Inductor software a plus
- Experience designing I/O's and high speed cml logic cells a plus
- Experience designing PCI-E Gen3 and KR SerDes a plus
Senior ASIC Design Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Candidate will be responsible for high speed ASIC design and verification for Network controller type ASICs. This includes all aspects of ASIC development flow from micro-architecture to timing closure.
Requirements:
- 10+ experience in the ASIC and design and verification methodology, with some experience in emulation platforms is a plus.
- Candidates must have working experience of synthesis and timing closure using DC and PTsi.
- Candidates should have a good background in networking protocols like Ethernet, TCP-IP, and PCIE protocols.
- Experience in design using SystemVerilog, C/C++ programming and Perl scripting is a plus.
Software Development Manager [ref: SwUSDevMgr]
Solarflare are looking for an exceptionally capable software engineer who can grow a new development and support team based out of our Irvine office. Solarflare's software team is currently centred out of our Cambridge office in the UK and this role is the first in creating a new software group in the US. This role will report directly into the Vice President Software who works out of Solarflare's UK office. As such the role would involve some travel to the UK and other locations – ideally the successful candidate would be available to spend a number of weeks in the UK when joining Solarflare.
This a very hands on role suitable for candidates who are looking for a senior role but one where they will still spend the majority of time actually developing software. We are looking for a very high calibre software engineers to work on the design and implementation of Solarflare's OpenOnload application middleware. OpenOnload is a kernel bypass network solution providing an accelerated TCP/IP network stack which is dynamically linked into an application's address space and granted direct access to accelerated network hardware.
As a technical lead the successful candidate will be responsible for the technical direction, help mentor more junior developers and ensure consistency and quality in the code base. This is a senior and highly technical role and the successful candidate you will have proven successful track record of producing high quality software, ideally for silicon or networking company.
The role also involves a high amount of customer contact; including pre-sales, post-sales support and consultancy to our tier1 financial (Wall Street) customer base. Long term, the new team will also provide 1st to 3rd level line technical support cover for the network adapter product range outside of UK office hours.
To be successful you will have the ability to quickly understand a complex hardware and software architecture. You will have worked extensively at the hardware / software interface involving networking in some capacity, programming in C ideally on Linux kernel components.
We are looking for engineers with a very strong academic background in a numerical subject (e.g. maths, physics, computer science) or of similar calibre.
Responsibilities:
- PhD, first class or 2:1 from well ranked university.
- 7+ years software experience (or equivalent) ideally working at silicon or networking companies.
- Proven commercial experience developing in C
- Evidence of technical leadership in the successful delivery of complex and challenging software products.
- Strong knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP and the sockets interface
- Linux kernel and device drivers
- Strong communication skills and desire to work closely with customers
