Vacancy caducado!
Western Semiconductor is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company that specializes in automating the design of high-end semiconductor designs (chips). This includes AI / machine learning, RISC-V CPUs, high frequency trading, hearing aids, etc.
We employ a mixture of MSEE graduates and electrical engineering apprentices and self taught programmers, many of whom dropped out from universities after interviewing for this position. We aren't interested in students who take the easy classes to receive an easy A. The average GPA of our candidates are lower than most. We care more about the classes that students take, or what they have learned on their own. Let's call this YouTube/Google University.
We have interned 100's of engineers who have received their Masters of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering. The vast majority of them are fundamentally unsound. Their bachelors degree was achieved outside of the US, and most have learned nothing. By cheating and having their parents mortgage their homes, they were able to get into the MSEE programs. These MSEE programs, such as ASU, only care about getting their $50K and pass the students through the system to perhaps (and perhaps not) get short term focused jobs at companies to test or make adjustments to layouts to save 100 picoseconds on their CPU. This is non technical clean up work and provide personnel who they can lay off when they need to make the 10% annual employee shrinkage.
We found that that students finishing their 2nd year of electrical engineering know more then most of the engineers in the masters degree program. We have hired a bunch of these candidates who would like to drop out of these spoon feeding organizations.
We are looking for wannabe electrical engineers to apprentice with us for 18 hours per week for 6 months. The time slots are 7am-1pm and 1 to 7pm. The days are M-Sa. Pick 3 days. MWF or TuThSa for example.
Our office is in the middle of downtown Tempe (Mill and 4th).
Troubleshooting and simplification skills are necessary. This isn't a position for mentally lazy people. If you are good at chess, you will probably be a good circuit designer. You will need to do some googling on the logic gates, how transistors work, etc.
Do not ask for salary until you are able to contribute towards revenue producing designs. Consider this to be a free education. You will be working on non-proprietary designs initially. Your goal is to come up to speed as soon as possible so we can put you onto customer or proprietary circuits.
What is EDA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihz2WY-E2C8
After 20 years, we have automated the entire chip layout (analog and digital). The market doesn't know about us yet. We will be coming out to the market 2024-Q1.
This describes what analog circuit designers do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNypq1XuZRo
If you choose digital, you will likely work on this:
https://opentitan.org/documentation/index.html or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPX1H3jW8ZQ
Please include your resume in your reply. It is only used a method to remember something about the candidate and to get your phone number. We are much more interested in your cover letter. You need to explain what you have learned on your own about
Linux and bash scripting
C and/or Python
Transistors and Logic cells
Note: This is not a position for dummies. It is quite the opposite. We are looking for gifted people, who find that college is grade 13-16.
Learning as an apprentice is far cheaper and faster than wasting your time at universities. Keep in mind that this position is not easy to get. We have already filled the office with extremely talented techies. We are looking to move into a larger office to accommodate more voluntary MSEEs and Craigslist Ad engineering/programming wannabes
Vacancy caducado!