Thursday, December 16, 2004
Startup Bliss
There is a great manager of staffing who's name is Karina Miller. She works at a startup company in Seattle called Impinj. Impinj does some very interesting things in the field of RFID. Karina also started a recruiting blog for Impinj.
Karina was the first staffing manager to begin working with me when I started Semiconductor Jobs and she has always been very supportive. She wrote a great piece about why she loves startup companies. The article is called Startup Bliss and and I have posted it in full on startupjobs.com
If
there are any recruiters out there at startup companies who see this, I
would love to get your feeling on the types of qualities you look for
in candidates that may be different than if you were hiring into a
public company.
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I am working with a recruiter who needs a number of Digital ASIC Design Engineers who have exp. in MCU preferably in a mixed signal environment. 4 years exp is necessary. This position is located in Texas.
Also, this same recruiter needs a Digital ASIC design engineer who has modem design exp. Exp required is RTL and DSP. 8 years plus exp. This position is located in the Bay Area
If you are interested, please send me an email and I will have the recruiter call you.
Thanks
5b4
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Senior ASIC Design Position Available
The job is in Mountain View CA
Senior Hardware Engineer (ASIC)
Do ASIC and FPGA level design. Tasks include VHDL coding, module level simulation, system level simulation and synthesis. Technology involves video compression, decompression, advanced video effect and a 100Gbps frame buffer. Knowledge of video processing (resize, color conversion, de-interlacing, filtering) is a must. Experience in board level debugging is a plus. BSEE required.
Please forward your resume to me and I will put you in touch with the recruiter.
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5b4
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Design Manager Position Available
Design Manager
The right candidate will have 10+ years in PLL design including DDR/Serdes. Minimum of 5 years management experience. Position reports to the V.P of Engineering. Will have a group of Snr. Analog PLL/I/O design engineers reporting to this person.
Staff Analog Mixed Signal Circuit Design Engineer
5 years analog design experience including PLL and I/O.
Cadence Analog Artist experience.
MatCad,Matlab,Spice and Spectra experience
Sr Analog/SERDES Design Engineer
10 years design experience including high speed Analog SERDES.
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5b4
Monday, December 06, 2004
Work, Money and Changing Jobs
Here is something about work and money and changing jobs.
Freud
thought that the key to a meaningful life was the successful ability to
work and to love. I think most people nowadays would also add the
ability to play as a necessary ingredient to the mixture. But if play
and love are so important to us, why are the rewards of work so vital
that we put it before both the others? I think the answer is relatively
simple.
Work has the unique characteristic of providing us with
a disguise. Work can offer us the leading part in a play, it enables us
to save the kingdom from ruin and to win the heart of the leading lady.
We may not be entirely aware that this dramatic scenario is unfolding
but there is no question that this is all happening. Work offers us the
opportunity to come home at the end of the day and feel, as we walk in
the door, that we are heroes. We have met face to face the worst that
life could throw at us and were victorious. As the protagonist in Tom
Wolfe’s novel The Bonfires Of The Vanities put it, he was the master of
the universe.
Can you really then put a price tag on the
opportunity to feel so great. Can you financially quantify the
opportunity to come home soaked in the warm feeling of success? In the
eyes of your family you may be the same person who left the house
earlier in the day but you know you are not the same. You have a job
that pumps up your ego that enhances your self-esteem and pushes your
self-confidence through the roof. Can you truly say how much that
feeling is worth?
If you have a job that provides you with one
of the necessary ingredients for a meaningful life you must hold on to
it. If, however, you are not the conquering hero at the end of the day
you must look elsewhere. Buying a bigger house, a faster car or a
bigger television? That’s not the answer. You need a different job.
Forget about the money. The important thing is how you feel about
yourself at the end of the day. Money cannot buy that feeling. Nothing
can buy that feeling because that feeling is not for sale.
If you want to be happy you need a job that makes you feel special. Not rich, not handsome, not talented. Special.
Find
the job that gives you that special feeling and you will find that it
is better than being rich or handsome or talented. You will come home
at day’s end a better person. Your family will thank you for it and the
rewards will be invaluable.
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