The Role
Seeking a Principal Microelectronics Engineer to lead and manage microelectronics programs, collaborate on funding opportunities, and engage with industry and academia to strengthen the supply chain.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job ID: TAP00113
Position: Principal Microelectronics Engineer
Location: US - Maryland, DC, Virginia (Partial Telework)
Category: Hardware
Clearance Requirement: None (U.S. Citizenship required)
Education Requirement: BS in Electrical Engineering (or related technical field)
Experience Requirement: 10+ Years
TAP is seeking to hire a Principal Microelectronics Engineer to join our team! If you are a highly motivated engineer who enjoys a challenging and dynamic environment where your contributions are both critical and valued, this company will provide you with the tools and opportunity to thrive.
The Principal Microelectronics Engineer will be working alongside the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (DOC NIST) in planning and executing microelectronics programs related to the CHIPS and Science Act. The successful candidate will work closely with a small team of interdisciplinary, inter-agency technical subject matter experts (SMEs) and program managers in collaboration with industry and academia to strengthen the domestic microelectronics supply chain. The Principal Microelectronics Engineer will work to shape, write, release, assess, and award industry Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs). And, once awarded, they will support the execution and management of the resulting programs (managing scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, etc.). This position requires an individual with both technical and program management skills.
Required Qualifications (Must Have’s):
By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that TAP Engineering may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.
TAP Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applicants receive lawful consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Position: Principal Microelectronics Engineer
Location: US - Maryland, DC, Virginia (Partial Telework)
Category: Hardware
Clearance Requirement: None (U.S. Citizenship required)
Education Requirement: BS in Electrical Engineering (or related technical field)
Experience Requirement: 10+ Years
TAP is seeking to hire a Principal Microelectronics Engineer to join our team! If you are a highly motivated engineer who enjoys a challenging and dynamic environment where your contributions are both critical and valued, this company will provide you with the tools and opportunity to thrive.
The Principal Microelectronics Engineer will be working alongside the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (DOC NIST) in planning and executing microelectronics programs related to the CHIPS and Science Act. The successful candidate will work closely with a small team of interdisciplinary, inter-agency technical subject matter experts (SMEs) and program managers in collaboration with industry and academia to strengthen the domestic microelectronics supply chain. The Principal Microelectronics Engineer will work to shape, write, release, assess, and award industry Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs). And, once awarded, they will support the execution and management of the resulting programs (managing scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, etc.). This position requires an individual with both technical and program management skills.
Required Qualifications (Must Have’s):
- U.S. Citizenship
- Ability and willingness to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience
- A relevant Masters Degree may be substituted for 2 years of experience (MS w/ 8+ years)
- A relevant PhD Degree may be substituted for 4 years of experience (PhD w/ 6+ years)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- This position requires the ability to brief senior-level executives within the government, industry and academia.
- The successful candidate will have the ability to write and review technical documents.
- Microelectronics hardware subject matter expertise in at least one of the areas listed below:
- Materials & Substrates: Experience with fabrication projects utilizing organics, glass, and semiconductor-based materials such as those found in advanced PCB, fan-out wafer level packaging, and or SIP device fabrication. Embedded components, laminated films such as ABF, spun-on films such as BCB, as well as copper metallization techniques.
- Equipment, Tools & Processing: First-hand knowledge of semiconductor and printed circuit board equipment designed for handling large-area substrates such as 200/300MM rounds, or greater than 500MM panels. Prior tool selection and or user experience in these areas a plus.
- Power Delivery & Thermal Management: Experience on projects utilizing TSV device fabrication techniques to deliver backside power delivery to Integrated Circuit designs such as chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), dielectrics deposition, atomic layer deposition (ALD), and metals deposition.
- Connectors & Photonics: Experience with optical I/O methodologies to bring signals on-chip, using fiber and or waveguides, to reach over 1 Tbps/mm full-duplex I/O density. Experience in linear drive optics projects a plus.
- Codesign & EDA: Experience executing or managing design projects that utilized Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools such as Ansys, Cadence Allegro, Cadence Virtuoso, Keysight Technologies, Siemens formerly Mentor Graphics, Calibre, Expedition, Synopsys, Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus Prime, Microsemi Libero, and or Lattice Diamond.
- Chiplets: Experience in device design decisions and trade studies for make-buy decisions involving disaggregation of monolithic designs into chiplet architectures, experience or deep knowledge of the UCIe Standard, AIB, SERDES, and other methods of chip-to-chip communications.
- Masters Degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Computer Science or related technical discipline.
By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that TAP Engineering may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.
TAP Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applicants receive lawful consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Top Skills
Ansys
Cadence Allegro
Cadence Virtuoso
Calibre
Electronic Design Automation (Eda) Tools
Expedition
Intel Quartus Prime
Keysight Technologies
Lattice Diamond
Microelectronics
Microsemi Libero
Semiconductor-Based Materials
Siemens Mentor Graphics
Synopsys
Xilinx Vivado
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The Company
What We Do
TAP Engineering (LLC) is a small, Maryland-based firm providing secure, trusted microelectronics hardware engineering, firmware development, and research support to the DoD, Intelligence Community, and commercial clients. TAP's engineers and research scientists have an average of 20 years' experience driving technology development from applied research to engineering development, prototype, test, production, and field support.
