Business Development Manager – Western USA

The Company

Ferric is a technology startup based in New York City that is pioneering an entirely new approach to power delivery for Integrated Circuits and Electronic Assemblies to enable significant improvements in the integration density and efficiency of voltage regulators (VRs) compared with current commercially available technologies.

The Role
The Business Development Manager role at Ferric is customer-facing and will focus on attaining design wins for Ferric’s power solutions in AI and High-Performance Computing as well as other application spaces. This is a western regional role based in Ferric’s Santa Clara facility and is northern California centric but will include the entire west coast of the US. This individual will lead strategy execution with customers located in the territory.

The Person
The ideal candidate will possess a breadth of abilities and skills, including a strong technical capability in power, ideally in integrated voltage regulators. A technical understanding of the power integrity concerns of processor architects, packaging, and thermal management are highly desired. The person should possess strong marketing and presentation skills, a solid understanding of the customers’ business and its decision makers, and the ability to craft resonating customer value propositions. Most importantly, the person will be the business leader for the assigned accounts, contributing to strategy, setting direction, and achieving success in all facets. The person must be self-driven, and capable of operating autonomously.

The applicant must be a team player with a commitment to meeting deadlines and an aptitude to thrive in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment. The position is based in Santa Clara, CA. Some travel (up to 15%), is expected

Key Responsibilities
Contribute to the setting of account strategy, the resulting tactical milestones, and leading the team to achieve them.

• Be a primary contact point in customer engagements, evangelizing new company technologies and products, driving to design-in and revenue capture goals.

• Drive and manage all pre-design win efforts and deliverables, including marketing collateral, product portfolio planning, technical summits, and Proof-of-Concept demo’s

• Understand the customer’s business goals and requirements, shaping value propositions that fulfill needs and resonate with the customer

• Foster relationships with customers at both management and engineering levels.

• Understand customer culture and internal decision-making process

• Be a strong advocate for the customer internally

• Understand customer power h/w requirements, configurations, and applications to help guide solution architecting accordingly

• Perform product marketing function working with both customers and internal product definition teams. Maintain awareness of industry trends, standards and consortia relevant to High Performance Computing power solutions.

• Attend trade shows and expos, including booth work as required.

• Maintain awareness of, and provide reports on, customer status and key issues

• Drive for highest levels of customer engagement and satisfaction

• Work within a team selling environment with application engineering, product engineering, and sales.

Preferred Qualifications

·       10 years of power semiconductor experience

• Minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience in a customer-facing role: technical sales, application engineering or technical marketing

• Strong understanding of voltage regulator operation

• Knowledge of modern AI and HPC chips, their power requirements and concerns.

• Outstanding written, oral communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple simultaneous projects

• Highly results driven

Academic Credentials
BS, or higher, in Electrical Engineering is strongly preferred. MBA a plus

Location
Santa Clara, Ca

Salary Range
$155,000 - $220,000

How to Apply:
To apply for this position please send your resume and cover letter to careers@ferricsemi.com

Ferric is an equal opportunity, inclusive employer and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

Senior ATE Test Engineer

Ferric is a technology startup based in New York City that is pioneering an entirely new approach to power delivery for Integrated Circuits and Electronic Assemblies. This approach leverages Ferric’s integration of thin-film magnetic inductors with CMOS technology to enable a significant improvement in the integration density and efficiency of integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) compared with current commercially available technologies.

As a Ferric IC Test Engineer, you will gain exposure to the full product-life of Ferric’s ICs by working with a diverse cross-functional team including IC designers, test & application engineers, engineering vendors, the fab, and our customers.  Your primary responsibilities will be to take full ownership of ATE testing and characterizing Ferric’s mixed-signal ICs, including creating ATE test plans, developing ATE production and characterization test programs for package level, and Known Good Die (KGD) testing. You will also support IC product qualification and production testing by our engineering vendors as ICs are productized.  The position requires a strong background in mixed-signal IC testing, experience with ATE programming and standard circuit test lab equipment, object-oriented programming, and data-analysis skills.  Applicants should be self-motivating and possess excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to work well and contribute on a team.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with IC design and test teams to create and review test plans and test cases, including providing recommendations for DFT & TFQ, test & debug visibility, etc

• Design and development of ATE HW

• Develop ATE test program of KGD, and package level testing of Ferric’s PMIC devices

• Support and execute product qualification 

• Bench-level testing, characterization, and debug of full ICs and IC sub-systems as required

• Drive engineering vendors for IC product qualification and production testing, including coordination of bench- & wafer-level tests, yield improvement, and test cost reductions

• Interface with customers to review IC test measurement data and procedures

• Assist with failure and root cause analysis

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Education:  Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in EE

• Industry Experience:  3+ years ATE experience

• Solid knowledge of ATE test program development, and equipment such as Agilent 93K Teradyne Flex, Eagle, etc., and testing of Power Management IC’s

• KGD testing experience

• Experience executing qualification plan 

• Self-motivated, possessing a willingness to learn and grow with the position, and able to take on full ownership of finding engineering solutions

• Excellent communication skills and effectively able to share information with others, including Ferric customers

• Strong problem-solving skills, with solid understanding of mixed-signal IC design and test

• Strong desire to grow and take on new challenges

• Programming Languages:  Python

• Lab experience with the following equipment:  Oscilloscope, Digital Multimeter (DMM), Source Measure Unit (SMU), DC Power Supply Unit (PSU), Electronic Load, Spectrum Analyzer, Opal Kelly, etc

• Knowledge of DC-DC power-converters/regulators (Buck, Boost, LDO, etc)

• Experience with PCB design and assembly, including component selection, soldering, etc

Preferred/Plus Skills and Experience:

• Education:  Master’s Degree in EE

• Experience with statistical data analysis of IC production data, including parametric correlation analysis, yield, and quality improvement, etc 

Location:

• Silicon Valley, CA

Other: 

• Salary range: $140K- 180K

• To apply please email your resume to careers@ferricsemi.com

• Ferric is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this position.

Thermal Mechanical Engineer

As a Ferric Thermal Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for developing thermal solutions for Ferric’s voltage regulator products. These solutions will be used in Ferric’s applications demonstrators as well as reference designs for customer applications. You will cooperate extensively with Ferric’s circuit design, component design, applications, and test teams. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Thermal Design

• Design thermal solutions for Ferric’s products in relevant customer application scenarios. Hardware includes heat sinks, heat spreaders, cold plates, and/or other innovative solutions

• Create prototypes of thermal solutions

• Correlate simulated and measured performance of thermal solutions

• Coordinate with component design engineer to co-optimize thermal, mechanical, and electrical performance of devices

• Thermal Analysis

• Evaluate thermal performance of power electronics devices 

• Give feedback to component design teams to improve thermal performance of Ferric products

• Create thermomechanical models of Ferric products for customer evaluation and internal reliability study

• Evaluate reliability performance of power electronics devices, including warpage and stress-strain analysis

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Mechanical Engineering / Material Engineering with 0-5 years of experience

• Strong Understanding of heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermal hardware design

• Knowledge of thermal solutions for power electronics

• Basic experience of PCB design tools

• Experience with thermomechanical analysis software

• Experience with industry standard thermal modeling software (Cadence Celsius, Ansys Icepak, Simcenter FloTherm, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in Mechanical Engineering / Material Engineering with 2-10+ years of experience

• Experience with data center thermal solutions

• Familiarity with electronics reliability standards and specifications

• Programming Languages:  Python

Desired Characteristics & Attributes:

• Passionate, self-starter with strong commitment to flawless execution

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required

• Ability to work well with others in a fast-paced collaborative team environment

Location:

• New York, NY

• Remote position negotiable

Salary Range:

• $85,000 - $125,000

How to apply:

• To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to careers@ferricsemi.com 

• Ferric is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this position

Component PCB and Package Design Engineer

Ferric is a technology startup based in New York City that is pioneering an entirely new approach to power delivery for Integrated Circuits and Electronic Assemblies. This approach leverages Ferric’s integration of thin-film magnetic inductors with CMOS technology to enable a significant improvement in the integration density and efficiency of voltage regulators (VRs) compared with current commercially available technologies.

As a Component PCB and Package Design Engineer, you will gain exposure to the full product-life of Ferric’s ICs by working with a diverse cross-functional team including IC designers, test & application engineers, component designers, engineering vendors, the fab, and our customers. Your primary responsibilities will be designing and simulating discrete circuit components and integrating them in a full system PCB. This position requires a background in component analysis, PCB layout best practices and experience in transitioning from simulation software to physical designs. Applicants should be self-motivated and willing to take full responsibility for finding engineering solutions. They must have excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills to work well and contribute to a team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Schematic and layout design for PCBs used for the validation, evaluation, and/or demonstration for Ferric’s products

• Layout design for organic package substrates or HDI substrate or IC substrate used for the for Ferric’s products

• Extracting and modeling of PCB Power Delivery Networks (PDN) and Clock Routing for estimation of parasitic effects

• Support design engineers to simulate and modeling of magnetic devices such as transformers and inductors for circuit level simulations 

• Designing and selecting components for PCBs in power conversion applications and device measurements

• Working with circuit design teams for full system analysis in the inclusion of the aforementioned extractions

• Collaborate with Ferric’s circuit, test, and applications teams to ensure that PCB and package designs meet requirements  

• Bench-level verification of PCB / package performance

• Analyzing RF performance of various physical components

• Developing, maintaining, and executing MATLAB and Python scripts to analyze device performance and automation of FEA simulations

• Generating compact models of our devices for simulation in Cadence Spectre

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Education:  Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in EE

• Industry Experience: 1-5 years

• Experience with PCB design and assembly, including component selection, soldering, etc.

• Strong Understanding of PCB and package substrate parasitics and PDN extraction 

• Knowledge of magnetic concepts and design, such as reluctance circuitry, magnetic losses and magnetic saturation

• Knowledge of DC-DC power converters/regulators (Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, LDO, etc.)

• Understanding of s-parameter analysis, de-embedding techniques and conversion between RF parameters

• Programming Languages:  Python, MATLAB

• Lab experience with the following equipment: Oscilloscope, Digital Multimeter (DMM), Spectrum Analyzer, Vector Network Analyzer (VNA)

• Software: Cadence Allegro Package Designer, Cadence Virtuoso Suite, Cadence Spectre, HSPICE, HFSS, SIwave, Xilinx ISE, and Linux

Desired Characteristics & Attributes::

• Passionate, self-starter with strong commitment to flawless execution

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required

• Ability to work well with others in a fast-paced collaborative team environment 

Location: New York, NY 

Eligibility: Applicant must currently be eligible to work for any employer in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Compensation: Base salary range for this position $80k-115k with additional equity and benefits

To apply please email your resume to careers@ferricsemi.com. Ferric is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this position.

Supply Chain Manager/Director

Ferric is a technology startup based in New York City that is pioneering an entirely new approach to power delivery for Integrated Circuits and Electronic Assemblies. This approach leverages Ferric’s integration of thin-film magnetic inductors with CMOS technology to enable a significant improvement in the integration density and efficiency of voltage regulators (VRs) compared with current commercially available technologies.

As a Supply Chain leader, you will be responsible for  supply chain optimization: Developing and implementing strategies to streamline the semiconductor supply chain,ensuring efficient material sourcing, production, and distribution. As such, working knowledge of semiconductor production flow, costing and inventory management is a key requirement. You will also be responsible for developing build plans, managing inventory and costs, and working with sales organizations to meet revenue and shipment goals.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ongoing Supply Chain support

• New Product Introduction (NPI): Leading NPI efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth transition from design to production, managing timelines, and   ensuring adequate supply of components.

• Supplier Management: Evaluating and selecting semiconductor suppliers, negotiating contracts,and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers to secure a reliable source of semiconductor materials.

• Cost Management: Monitoring and controlling costs associated with semiconductor materials, transportation, and inventory. Monitors the cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to negotiate highest quality at best value.

• Planning and Execution: Responsible for planning and executing the supply chain operations for new product introductions, including materials procurement, production readiness, and fulfillment.

• Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities for process improvements and implementing best practices to enhance the efficiency of NPI supply chain operations

• Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Collaborating with engineering, finance, and other relevant departments to ensure a seamless NPI process

• Develop build plan and inform supplier  forecasts

• Quality Assurance: Ensuring the quality and reliability of semiconductor components through quality control measures and adherence to industry standards.

• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating risks in the semiconductor supply chain, such as shortages,lead time issues, or geopolitical challenges.

• Technology Roadmap: Developing a commodity technology roadmap that aligns business requirements with supplier capabilities

• Product Lifecycle Management: Managing or participating in the entire lifecycle of new semiconductor products,from design and development to production and end-of-life, ensuring efficient supply chain processes are in place.

• Conducts analysis of  strategic supply chain 

• Implements strategies for negotiating commodity purchase agreements based on knowledge markets and supply base.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Other Skills and Abilities:

• ERP/MRP systemsWorking knowledge of ISO9001 and/or AS9100

• Customer and supplier audits

Location: CA Bay Area

Compensation: Base salary of $130,000-$180,000 dependent on experience level and location. Base compensation is exclusive of equity (ISO) and benefits.

To apply for this position, send your resume and a cover letter to careers@ferricsemi.com 

Ferric is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this position.

Director/Manager, Quality and Reliability

Position Summary and Responsibilities:

Responsible for implementation of the policies and procedures to ensure adherence to the quality assurance system and oversight of a team that promotes customer satisfaction. Champions ISO certification, continuous improvement efforts and defect reduction initiatives to establish an effective quality assurance program. Initiates and implements quality improvement activities as appropriate during bring up and to enhance the performance of the company’s production. Educate and train employees as to their impact in the quality management system.

Location: California Silicon Valley, Hybrid

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Lead ISO certification activities.

• Plan and lead device reliability planning and testing.

• Serves as the primary quality assurance resource for problem identification, resolution, and continuous improvement.

• Supports concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representing quality assurance and the customer.

• Performs root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities regarding nonconformance of products and processes to identify effective corrective actions and process improvements.

• Oversee calibration program.

• Communicates quality issues, trends and losses to all relevant organizational departments.

• Interfaces with supplier and customer quality representatives concerning problems with quality control and assure that effective corrective action is implemented.

• Responsible for compliance including leading internal and external quality audit functions.

• Reviews technical publications, articles, regulatory standards, trends and abstracts to stay abreast of issues in the quality control industry.

• Approves and submits proposals and budgets considered feasible to management for consideration and allocation of funds.

• Serves as a member of senior management team providing guidance and leadership to management including formulation or changes to policies.

• Establishes operational objectives and directs subordinates to achieve assignments by providing leadership, assigning tasks and checking work at appropriate intervals to determine status of assigned projects and ensure goals are met within organization goals of budget, time requirements and high level of quality.

• Prepares reports for internal and external customers.

• Identifies obstacles to achieving business goals and provides solutions or seeks out appropriate assistance; Determines allocation of resources and equipment.

• Ensures the working environment is clean, organized and safe for employees at all times; Understands and ensures staff complies with all safety and environmental policies and practices.

• Works to avoid erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results that may cause scrap, rework, use of excessive overtime, and/or delays in schedules.

• Interacts with subordinate supervisors, outside customers, and functional peer groups at various management levels. Interaction normally requires the ability to inspire and gain cooperation of others, to conduct or aid others in conducting presentations or to exchange information.

• Daily availability to include evenings and weekends when necessary to reach goals and deadlines.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job provides high level leadership and management to functional area(s). Carries out leadership responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include providing leadership to employees, interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor's degree in technical discipline for production/quality and engineering/sales engineering related positions and in a related business discipline for Quality/Reliability/Product-test  related field and 15 years’ of directly related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master’s degree highly preferred. Position requires a minimum of 5 years’ supervisory/management experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals datasheet, and/or legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to senior/Corporate management and customers. Firm and practical knowledge of semiconductor physics, reliability,  quality and failure analysis. Ability to lead company through ISO9001 certification

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. 

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have a general knowledge of Google Suite, Microsoft Office and ERP/MRP Software. 

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Working knowledge of ISO9001 and/or AS9100

• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing/6 Sigma

• Customer and supplier audits

• Knowledge of specific software (design, statistical analysis, ERP…)

• US Citizenship

To apply for this position, send your resume and a cover letter to careers@ferricsemi.com 

Ferric is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this position.

IC Reliability Engineer

Ferric is a technology startup based in New York City that is pioneering an entirely new approach to power delivery for Integrated Circuits and Electronic Assemblies. This approach leverages Ferric’s integration of thin-film magnetic inductors with CMOS technology to enable a significant improvement in the integration density and efficiency of voltage regulators (VRs) compared with current commercially available technologies.

As a Ferric IC Reliability Engineer, you will gain exposure to the full product life of Ferric’s ICs by working with a diverse cross-functional team including IC designers, test & application engineers, engineering vendors, the fab, and our customers.  Your primary responsibilities will be taking full ownership of reviewing designs for reliability, planning for reliability testing, developing the reliability qualification plan, developing the required H/W and S/W, and executing the plans. In addition, you will be responsible for generating internal and external reports and performing failure and root cause analyses. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define reliability requirements and develop reliability qualification plans

• Manage the design and implementation of qualification hard- and software

• Run the internal qualification tests in our lab and manage qualification tests with external partners

• Participate and contribute in design reviews, DFMEA, etc. through the entire product development life cycle; assess and communicate reliability risk to stakeholders.

• Design and develop reliability monitoring and long-term reliability testing

• Design and develop custom test fixtures to conduct various mechanical and electric testing requirements for our products

• Perform failure analysis to understand the root cause and drive resolution of failures occurring during product development and during the entire product life cycle

• Plan and execute Electromigration testing

• Development and execution of Python scripts to automate the characterization and data acquisition of key DC-DC power-converter metrics

• Circuit and PCB design (and occasional assembly) of bench-level IC test boards

• Support the Field Applications Engineering team with bench test/demo setups and customer support items

• Drive engineering vendors for IC product qualification, including coordination of bench- & wafer-level tests, and yield improvement

• Interface with customers to review IC reliability data and procedures

• Review suppliers' processes and products for conformance to reliability and quality standard

• Audit suppliers as needed

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Education:  Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in EE

• Industry and reliability experience:  3-10 years

• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to apply knowledge to drive reliability testing

• Sound mathematical and statistical background

• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and thermal failure modes in the semiconductor material

• Experience in failure analysis

• Must be a motivated team player

• Self-motivated, possessing a willingness to learn and grow with the position, and able to take on full ownership of finding engineering solutions

• Excellent communication skills and effectively able to share information with others, including Ferric customers

• Familiarity with equipment communication protocols, including USB, RS232, GPIB, etc

• Lab experience with the following equipment:  Oscilloscope, Digital Multimeter (DMM), Source Measure Unit (SMU), DC Power Supply Unit (PSU), Electronic Load

Preferred/Plus Skills and Experience:

• Education:  Master’s Degree in EE

• Automotive level qualification, APQP/PPAP

• Knowledge of DC-DC power converters/regulators (Buck, Boost, LDO, etc)

• Experience with PCB design and assembly, including component selection, bonding, etc

• Experience with testing on Automated Test Equipment

• Programming Languages:  Python, Verilog

• Leading ISO9001 implementation

Location:

• San Jose, CA, or New York, NY 

Compensation:

• Annual compensation ranges from $120,000-145,000, and stock options and benefits

To apply please email your resume to careers@ferricsemi.com

Ferric is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this position.