Careers
Senior Field Applications Engineer – HMI Controller & Sensor Systems
Summary
UltraSense Systems is sparking change in the automotive industry by elevating the touch experience with its Human Machine Interface (HMI) Controllers and InPlane Sensing HMI system design services, enabling multi-mode touch sensing, backlighting, haptics feedback to turn almost any surface into a smart surface. With several cars already on the road today using UltraSense HMI controllers, UltraSense is looking to expand its team with an experienced Sr. Field Application Engineering with solid EE and software experience. This is a great opportunity to learn about automotive HMI touch systems by working directly with some of the biggest automotive OEMs and tier-suppliers and be part of an exciting forward-looking company!
Responsibilities
- Be the leader in proposing and supporting HMI system design solutions to customers
- Support global sales/FAE teams and customers in all technical aspects of selling
- Respond to technical customer questions, schematic & layout reviews
- Reproduce and verify customer findings/issues and propose solutions or workarounds
- Work is at San Jose, CA headquarters but should be open for travelling to provide on-site support and trainings when/where needed (estimated ~10%).
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of each demonstration platform and apply to future product development
- Generate application notes, presentations and videos where necessary
- Provide training to sales channel partners and customers
Requirements
- 5+ years relevant semiconductor industry experience
- BSc or MSc in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering
- Solid know-how in electronics development (hardware and software)
- Good knowledge of the physics and signal processing related to sensor systems
- Knowledge of serial protocols (SPI, UART, I2C, etc.)
- Familiar with basic lab equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter, power supply)
- Ability to identify technical problems and propose solution strategies
- Able to adapt to a very dynamic work environment and changing customer requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and thorough methodical work style
- Must be articulate with the English language and capable of producing clear and detailed documentation and presentations
- Must be comfortable with interacting with customers in person and via conference calls
- Must be hands-on, practical attitude
Please apply directly on LinkedIn or send a copy of your resume to jobs@ultrasensesys.com.
Electro-Mechanical System Prototype Engineer
Summary
Come and join a fast-paced Silicon Valley startup company bent on changing the world on how humans interact with devices. UltraSense Systems is the leader in SmartSuface HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) and is enabling OEMs to innovate on the way you interact. One market is automotive, if you love building and creating the next generation prototypes that you may see in the next generation automobile, then come be a part of the magic.
Do you admire a job well done? Appreciate a well-crafted and engineered design concept? We are seeking a highly enthusiastic and hands-on contributor for building and assembling mechanical and electrical prototypes. Plenty of opportunities to learn and grow with the company.
Job Description
- Retrofitting and assembling electronic components and sensors into various types of units and mechanical assemblies
- Assist with soldering and modifying boards and electronic units• Perform test and process optimization on the units
- Assist with developing and introducing new electro-mechanical designs/assemblies
- Assist with installment and testing of lab equipment
- Coordinate cross functionally with other engineering disciplines for miscellaneous tasks
Job Requirements
- Holding a college degree or holding/pursuing a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related disciplines
- Can start within two weeks
- Have good knowledge of industry components
- Have good understanding of product assemblies
- Hands-on experience with hardware, including soldering and lab equipment
- Knowledge of CAD and mechanical design is a PLUS
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes is a PLUS
- 3D printing or CNC experience is a PLUS
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Lab Mechanical Technician
Summary
Come and join a fast-paced Silicon Valley startup company bent on changing the world on how humans interact with devices. UltraSense Systems is the leader in SmartSuface HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) and is enabling OEMs to innovate on the way you interact. One market is automotive, if you love building and creating the next generation prototypes that you may see in the next generation automobile, then come be a part of the magic.
Do you admire a job well done? Appreciate a well-crafted and engineered design concept? We are seeking a highly enthusiastic and hands-on contributor for building and assembling mechanical and electrical prototypes. Plenty of opportunities to learn and grow with the company.
Job Description
- 4+ years of electrical and/or mechanical technician expertise
- Retrofitting and assembling electronic components into various types of units and housings
- Assist with soldering and modifying boards and electronic units
- CAD, 3D modeling & printing, CNC experience is a PLUS
- Perform test and process optimization on the units
- Assist with developing and introducing new electro-mechanical designs/assemblies
- Assist with installment and testing of lab equipment
- Coordinate cross functionally with other engineering disciplines for miscellaneous tasks
Job Requirements
- Holding a college degree or holding/pursuing a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related disciplines
- Can start within two weeks
- Have good knowledge of industry components
- Hands-on experience with hardware, including soldering, lab equipment, assembly and design is a plus
- Knowledge of CAD and mechanical design is a plus
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Analog & Mixed Signal Design Sr. Engineer
Summary
UltraSense Systems is looking for strong Analog/Mixed Signal IC Design engineer. Main responsibilities include development of touch sensing solutions across multiple applications from mobile to automotive to IoT.
Major Responsibilities
- Drive touch sensing features and performance definition, top-level integration, verification, assist design trade-offs, coordinating layout activities.
- Develop design schedules, monitoring progress throughout the project, regular updates to design leaders and team managers.
- Design documentation and reviews.
- Modeling at the block and sub-system level, provide support for integration into the IC top level.
- Create initial lab bring-up plans, lead initial design evaluation and debug, track and drive IC bug resolution.
- Collaborate with validation teams, product engineering and test engineering teams to enable successful IC Qualification and release to production.
- Work with systems engineers, application engineers and marketing to prepare datasheets, application notes and assisting in the definition of the product to meet customer needs.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Candidates with a Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
- 4+ years’ experience leading analogue top-level integration/verification. Specifically, in the area of high-resolution ADCs/DACs, Audio amplifiers and various support circuitry. History of successfully leading multiple IPs/sub-systems to mass production.
- Experience with Continuous and Discrete Time Delta Sigma architectures, including Class D architectures
- Matlab/Simulink system analysis background to help team define/validate architecture and analyze trade-offs.
- Solid mixed-mode design experience leading complex design projects integrating analogue and digital designs.
- Experience with CMOS analog circuit design.
- Good documentation and communication skills and the ability to work independently and with others in a distributed environment with engineers in several locations.
- Candidate should demonstrate a true motivation to work with a team to bring new ideas in the audio domain that will help to surpass the competitive landscape.
- The candidate should have a strong willingness to provide innovative circuit design solutions, ability to mentor other engineers in the state of the art.
- Applies knowledge and advanced analytical and/or technical interpretation to resolve a variety of complex problems.
- Experience with AMS/System-Verilog modeling for mixed-signal verification.
- Experience in the design of sigma-deltas ADCs/DACs from system analysis to implementation. Discrete-time and continuous-time architectures design experience.
- Experience with Cadence EDA tools.
- Experience in the use of SPICE or Spectre simulation.
- Experience to use diverse laboratory tools for silicon evaluation.
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Software Algorithm Engineer
Summary
UltraSense Systems is looking for a strong Software Algorithm Engineer with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in algorithm development to join our team. Main responsibilities include development of C-Models along with associated datasets, converting the model into an embedded solution, development and debugging on Linux, Android and Qualcomm based systems.
Major Responsibilities
- Architect and develop algorithms for button replacement in mobile, automotive and IoT products.
- Define the touch subsystem algorithm pipeline, develop algorithms, deliver C-models, along with golden datasets for integration into embedded systems.
- Develop signal processing algorithms in real-world or comparable settings
- Work with the hardware and architecture team to explore optimized hardware architecture to achieve the best efficiency
- Provide direct support to customers and partners with the design, development and debug of reference design S/W related issues and helping to customize software.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with small signal recovery techniques in noisy environments is a must
- Experience in developing and optimizing algorithms to run on DSP and microprocessors is a must
- Candidate should have strong programming fundamentals using C/C++/Java and at least one assembly language.
- Experience with embedded software development and assembly language programming
- SOC – ARM/RISC and 8051 architectures and QCOM ADSP and SLPI platforms required
- Android platform, HAL and Framework is a must; experience integrating into Android platforms for mobile products, analyze and fix issues to support product delivery. Extensive experience on working with the ASP including Framework enhancement and customization
- Strong understanding and practical experience with Android Framework and Android application development
- Experience in mass-produced electronics (mobile and consumer preferred); must be able to identify products taken to production
- Factory volume production experience and qualification is a plus
- 10+ years of experience in writing embedded software or kernel level code, including drivers, BSP programming and hardware adaptations.
- 4+ years developing with Android SDK in a production environment
- Must be ready to travel to customer sites for integration and bring-up
Preferred Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Experience with sensing hardware (design and calibration) is a plus
- Experience in using Debugging tools such as JTAG, Trace32 and oscilloscope/Logical Analyzer.
- Experience in Analyzing the Kernel crash dumps and Systrace dumps.
- Contributions to open source projects (pls provide website/git-hub links)
- Experience working full-stack
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Test Development Manager
Summary
You will be responsible for defining, developing and deploying ATE Test Programs for our automotive product line. In this role, you will work closely with silicon engineering team to design appropriate ATE testing programs for our Sensor SoC + ML platform.
Responsibilities
- Delineate, develop and implement ATE test programs with close collaboration with Silicon engineering
- Work with offshore Test Engineering to qualify and transfer test programs.
- Support Test failure analysis and solution validation to complete successful product development/release
- Provide detailed Test documentation
- Implement DFT including SCAN, ATPG, MBIST,..
- Apply technical expertise to problem solving throughout product lifecycle
Qualifications Requirements
- BS/MS in EE or equivalent
- 5 year’s experience in IC Test Development
- Familiarity with analog design
- Product Engineering experience in terms of yield debugging and analysis
- Familiarity with Linux operating systems, and programming languages such as Perl/Python and/or C/C++, SQL
- Experience with test program development on multiple test platforms (Teradyne, LTX, Credence, Advantest, etc.)
- Support Test Pattern generation
- Knowledge of Tolerance Analysis and Statistical Process Control (Cp, CpK)
- Strong analytical skills
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Senior Director, Product Line Management
Responsibilities
- Drive the Solid-State Button (SSB) product lifecycle from start to finish, working jointly with Engineering, Operations and Sales to maximize value with high GM.
- Leverage a holistic mix of business acumen, analytical skills, and technical know-how to define the product capabilities and go-to-market strategy for the SSB product line Responsible for defining PRDs, Cost, Specifications, and time to market, engaging with customers to explain product plans and collect inputs.
- Formulate product requirements through primary research &competitive analysis, and translate requirements into detailed PRDs with a strong focus on user experience
- Excel in a highly cross-functional environment, collaborating with Engineering, Operations, Sales and others to bring products to market
- Work closely with customers and Sales to identify the value proposition, customer segments, enablement needs, and business cases for the SSB portfolio
- Assess competition and customer product development plans to drive differentiated product roadmaps.
- Develop a deep, pervasive knowledge of features, capabilities, and advantages provided by ULTRASENSE HMI technologies
- Manage P&L and ROI throughout each phase of product development and commercialization
- Provide responses to customer RFQ documents in close collaboration with Sales, Engineering and Operations teams
• Support Sales at strategic customer meetings, conferences, and trade shows
Education and Experience Required
- 10+ years of product management & product marketing experience with highly complex hardware products with embedded firmware/software preferably for consumer, industrial, medical, or automotive markets.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience getting products successfully built with Contract Manufacturing in Asia
- MBA degree (technical undergrad preferred)
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong business acumen and ability to grasp technical concepts
- Strong presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong leadership and organizational skills adept at driving actions in meetings and managing projects effectively.
- Strong passion and drive with an entrepreneurial, positive, can-do attitude.
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Electro-Mechanical System Prototype Engineer
Summary
Come and join a fast-paced Silicon Valley startup company bent on changing the world on how humans interact with devices. UltraSense Systems is the leader in SmartSuface HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) and is enabling OEMs to innovate on the way you interact. One market is automotive, if you love building and creating the next generation prototypes that you may see in the next generation automobile, then come be a part of the magic.
Do you admire a job well done? Appreciate a well-crafted and engineered design concept? We are seeking a highly enthusiastic and hands-on contributor for building and assembling mechanical and electrical prototypes. Plenty of opportunities to learn and grow with the company.
Job Description
- Retrofitting and assembling electronic components and sensors into various types of units and mechanical assemblies
- Assist with soldering and modifying boards and electronic units• Perform test and process optimization on the units
- Assist with developing and introducing new electro-mechanical designs/assemblies
- Assist with installment and testing of lab equipment
- Coordinate cross functionally with other engineering disciplines for miscellaneous tasks
Job Description
- Holding a college degree or holding/pursuing a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related disciplines
- Can start within two weeks
- Have good knowledge of industry components
- Have good understanding of product assemblies
- Hands-on experience with hardware, including soldering and lab equipment
- Knowledge of CAD and mechanical design is a PLUS
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes is a PLUS
- 3D printing or CNC experience is a PLUS
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Lab Mechanical Technician
Summary
Come and join a fast-paced Silicon Valley startup company bent on changing the world on how humans interact with devices. UltraSense Systems is the leader in SmartSuface HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) and is enabling OEMs to innovate on the way you interact. One market is automotive, if you love building and creating the next generation prototypes that you may see in the next generation automobile, then come be a part of the magic.
Do you admire a job well done? Appreciate a well-crafted and engineered design concept? We are seeking a highly enthusiastic and hands-on contributor for building and assembling mechanical and electrical prototypes. Plenty of opportunities to learn and grow with the company.
Job Description
- 4+ years of electrical and/or mechanical technician expertise
- Retrofitting and assembling electronic components into various types of units and housings
- Assist with soldering and modifying boards and electronic units
- CAD, 3D modeling & printing, CNC experience is a PLUS
- Perform test and process optimization on the units
- Assist with developing and introducing new electro-mechanical designs/assemblies
- Assist with installment and testing of lab equipment
- Coordinate cross functionally with other engineering disciplines for miscellaneous tasks
Job Description
- Holding a college degree or holding/pursuing a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related disciplines
- Can start within two weeks
- Have good knowledge of industry components
- Hands-on experience with hardware, including soldering, lab equipment, assembly and design is a plus
- Knowledge of CAD and mechanical design is a plus
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Analog & Mixed Signal Design Sr. Engineer
Summary
UltraSense Systems is looking for strong Analog/Mixed Signal IC Design engineer. Main responsibilities include development of touch sensing solutions across multiple applications from mobile to automotive to IoT.
Major Responsibilities
- Drive touch sensing features and performance definition, top-level integration, verification, assist design trade-offs, coordinating layout activities.
- Develop design schedules, monitoring progress throughout the project, regular updates to design leaders and team managers.
- Design documentation and reviews.
- Modeling at the block and sub-system level, provide support for integration into the IC top level.
- Create initial lab bring-up plans, lead initial design evaluation and debug, track and drive IC bug resolution.
- Collaborate with validation teams, product engineering and test engineering teams to enable successful IC Qualification and release to production.
- Work with systems engineers, application engineers and marketing to prepare datasheets, application notes and assisting in the definition of the product to meet customer needs.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Candidates with a Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
- 4+ years’ experience leading analogue top-level integration/verification. Specifically, in the area of high-resolution ADCs/DACs, Audio amplifiers and various support circuitry. History of successfully leading multiple IPs/sub-systems to mass production.
- Experience with Continuous and Discrete Time Delta Sigma architectures, including Class D architectures
- Matlab/Simulink system analysis background to help team define/validate architecture and analyze trade-offs.
- Solid mixed-mode design experience leading complex design projects integrating analogue and digital designs.
- Experience with CMOS analog circuit design.
- Good documentation and communication skills and the ability to work independently and with others in a distributed environment with engineers in several locations.
- Candidate should demonstrate a true motivation to work with a team to bring new ideas in the audio domain that will help to surpass the competitive landscape.
- The candidate should have a strong willingness to provide innovative circuit design solutions, ability to mentor other engineers in the state of the art.
- Applies knowledge and advanced analytical and/or technical interpretation to resolve a variety of complex problems.
- Experience with AMS/System-Verilog modeling for mixed-signal verification.
- Experience in the design of sigma-deltas ADCs/DACs from system analysis to implementation. Discrete-time and continuous-time architectures design experience.
- Experience with Cadence EDA tools.
- Experience in the use of SPICE or Spectre simulation.
- Experience to use diverse laboratory tools for silicon evaluation.
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Software Algorithm Engineer
Summary
UltraSense Systems is looking for a strong Software Algorithm Engineer with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in algorithm development to join our team. Main responsibilities include development of C-Models along with associated datasets, converting the model into an embedded solution, development and debugging on Linux, Android and Qualcomm based systems.
Major Responsibilities
- Architect and develop algorithms for button replacement in mobile, automotive and IoT products.
- Define the touch subsystem algorithm pipeline, develop algorithms, deliver C-models, along with golden datasets for integration into embedded systems.
- Develop signal processing algorithms in real-world or comparable settings
- Work with the hardware and architecture team to explore optimized hardware architecture to achieve the best efficiency
- Provide direct support to customers and partners with the design, development and debug of reference design S/W related issues and helping to customize software.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with small signal recovery techniques in noisy environments is a must
- Experience in developing and optimizing algorithms to run on DSP and microprocessors is a must
- Candidate should have strong programming fundamentals using C/C++/Java and at least one assembly language.
- Experience with embedded software development and assembly language programming
- SOC – ARM/RISC and 8051 architectures and QCOM ADSP and SLPI platforms required
- Android platform, HAL and Framework is a must; experience integrating into Android platforms for mobile products, analyze and fix issues to support product delivery. Extensive experience on working with the ASP including Framework enhancement and customization
- Strong understanding and practical experience with Android Framework and Android application development
- Experience in mass-produced electronics (mobile and consumer preferred); must be able to identify products taken to production
- Factory volume production experience and qualification is a plus
- 10+ years of experience in writing embedded software or kernel level code, including drivers, BSP programming and hardware adaptations.
- 4+ years developing with Android SDK in a production environment
- Must be ready to travel to customer sites for integration and bring-up
Preferred Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Experience with sensing hardware (design and calibration) is a plus
- Experience in using Debugging tools such as JTAG, Trace32 and oscilloscope/Logical Analyzer.
- Experience in Analyzing the Kernel crash dumps and Systrace dumps.
- Contributions to open source projects (pls provide website/git-hub links)
- Experience working full-stack
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Test Development Manager
Summary
You will be responsible for defining, developing and deploying ATE Test Programs for our automotive product line. In this role, you will work closely with silicon engineering team to design appropriate ATE testing programs for our Sensor SoC + ML platform.
Responsibilities
- Delineate, develop and implement ATE test programs with close collaboration with Silicon engineering
- Work with offshore Test Engineering to qualify and transfer test programs.
- Support Test failure analysis and solution validation to complete successful product development/release
- Provide detailed Test documentation
- Implement DFT including SCAN, ATPG, MBIST,..
- Apply technical expertise to problem solving throughout product lifecycle
Qualifications Requirements
- BS/MS in EE or equivalent
- 5 year’s experience in IC Test Development
- Familiarity with analog design
- Product Engineering experience in terms of yield debugging and analysis
- Familiarity with Linux operating systems, and programming languages such as Perl/Python and/or C/C++, SQL
- Experience with test program development on multiple test platforms (Teradyne, LTX, Credence, Advantest, etc.)
- Support Test Pattern generation
- Knowledge of Tolerance Analysis and Statistical Process Control (Cp, CpK)
- Strong analytical skills
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
Senior Director, Product Line Management
Responsibilities
- Drive the Solid-State Button (SSB) product lifecycle from start to finish, working jointly with Engineering, Operations and Sales to maximize value with high GM.
- Leverage a holistic mix of business acumen, analytical skills, and technical know-how to define the product capabilities and go-to-market strategy for the SSB product line Responsible for defining PRDs, Cost, Specifications, and time to market, engaging with customers to explain product plans and collect inputs.
- Formulate product requirements through primary research &competitive analysis, and translate requirements into detailed PRDs with a strong focus on user experience
- Excel in a highly cross-functional environment, collaborating with Engineering, Operations, Sales and others to bring products to market
- Work closely with customers and Sales to identify the value proposition, customer segments, enablement needs, and business cases for the SSB portfolio
- Assess competition and customer product development plans to drive differentiated product roadmaps.
- Develop a deep, pervasive knowledge of features, capabilities, and advantages provided by ULTRASENSE HMI technologies
- Manage P&L and ROI throughout each phase of product development and commercialization
- Provide responses to customer RFQ documents in close collaboration with Sales, Engineering and Operations teams
• Support Sales at strategic customer meetings, conferences, and trade shows
Education and Experience Required
- 10+ years of product management & product marketing experience with highly complex hardware products with embedded firmware/software preferably for consumer, industrial, medical, or automotive markets.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience getting products successfully built with Contract Manufacturing in Asia
- MBA degree (technical undergrad preferred)
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong business acumen and ability to grasp technical concepts
- Strong presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong leadership and organizational skills adept at driving actions in meetings and managing projects effectively.
- Strong passion and drive with an entrepreneurial, positive, can-do attitude.
Send resumes to jobs@ultrasensesys.com
