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Telegent Systems represents a breakthrough opportunity for handset makers, carriers, and broadcasters.

—Reed Hundt, Former chairman of the FCC and a member of Telegent Systems’ board of directors

Careers

Telegent is looking for exceptional candidates for the following positions :

» VP of Global Product Marketing
» Director, Digital Design
» Business Development Manager, LatAm
» Product Manager
» Sr. Manager, Production & Inventory Control - Hong Kong
» Engineers, Logic Design
» Staff/Sr. Staff Engineer, Systems Characterization
» Hardware Field Applications Engineer - Taiwan
» Lab Technician/Engineer

To apply for the positions listed, please email your resume to:
careers@telegent.com

PRINCIPALS ONLY. NO PHONE CALLS OR AGENCIES PLEASE. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

VP of Global Product Marketing

(full-time position, location: China)

The VP of Global Product Marketing will report to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The successful candidate will be a senior executive of the Company and will be responsible for key aspects of the business including new product planning and product marketing and will play a key role in strategic sales engagement and sales process.

Key Responsibilities:

The VP of Global Product Marketing will have responsibilities in the following critical areas:

• Product Management / Marketing
  • Work with the CEO, CTO and VP of Engineering to develop future product initiatives.
  • Drive strategic planning process with executive team.
  • Build and manage global product and technical marketing organization across multiple product lines.
  • Define and drive cradle-to-grave product life cycle process and key milestones.
  • Analyze competition, technology trends and engage with customers to define product requirements and assess market opportunity.
  • Conduct market sizing and segmentation.
  • Generate pricing strategies.
  • Develop and execute go-to-market strategies.
• Strategic Sales Engagement
  • Develop relationships with strategic customers and key partners.
  • Secure lighthouse design wins for new products / product lines.
  • Define key customer targets.
  • Participate in and support tier-1 engagement activities.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum of 10 yrs. of experience in semiconductor component marketing with product responsibility.
• The ideal candidate will be a current or former executive from a respected semiconductor organization and will have significant experience in product management and in managing professional-level marketing personnel.
• He/she will also have experience working in a hands-on environment, a track record of success introducing new products to the marketplace and proven ability to grow revenue.
• Experience marketing of chips into mobile handset or PC OEMs.
• Management of complete product cycle from definition of product to volume production.
• Demonstrated understanding of the challenges associated with commercializing new technologies.
• Able to interface successfully with technical development team, customers, and partners.
• Proven record of effective leadership and mentorship of a team of marketing professionals.
• Experienced in preparation of budgets & revenue forecasts.
• A team player who can work effectively in a fast-paced small company environment.
• Proven effectiveness working in a company of diverse cultures with extensive experience working with Asia-based customers and employees.

Education:

Undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and other graduate degrees from a respected institution are desirable. Experience and significant accomplishments may be substituted for advanced degrees.

Director, Digital Design

(full-time position, location: Sunnyvale)

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all aspects of SOC digital design, including microarchitecture, logic design, synthesis, verification, and place and route.

• Provide leadership to a growing group of 20-30 engineers and engineering managers.
• Shepherd multiple products through all stages of the development process.
• Continuously improve methodologies, processes and procedures.

Skills and Experience:

• At least 5 years experience in semiconductor design management, at least 3 at director level for a group of 15 or greater.
• Results oriented with good process management.
• Demonstrated success in delivering products in a predictable and timely fashion.
• Working knowledge of industry standard verification, prototyping and back end flows.
• Understanding of basic DSP blocks (such as filtering, Viterbi, FFT, etc.).
• MSEE or better.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of television standards (such as NTSC, ATSC, etc.).
• Experience working collaboratively with other, geographically distant teams.
• Willing to travel at least one week per quarter.
• Familiarity with consumer electronic interfaces (USB, SPI, SDIO, I2C, etc.).
• Familiarity with video encoding and decoding standards.
• Familiarity with behavioral synthesis.

Business Development Manager, LatAm

(full-time position)

Job Responsibilities:

• Member of Telegent’s global business development team.
• Identifies, builds and manages partnerships in Latin American trade free zones (Panama, Uruguay and Paraguay).
• Identifies relationships between local traders, distributors and customers in China and Hong-Kong (IDHs, ODMs, OEMs).
• Identifies and implement programs oriented at driving preference for products that use Telegent technology.
• Feeds back market trends and works with product management to identify and evaluate opportunities for existing and new products.

Required Skills:

• Based in Panama City, Paraguay or Mexico City.
• Fluent English and Spanish. Working knowledge of Mandarin and conversant Portuguese preferred.
• Deep knowledge of the semiconductor, telecom, cellular (handset definition) industries (at least 5-7 years of experience, marketing, biz dev, sales), ability to feedback handset definition requirements.
• Strong leadership capabilities.
• Partnership development (including negotiation) capabilities.
• Self-motivated with ability to work in an unstructured environment (strong operational mindset, decisive, with a "get it done" and “whatever it takes” mentality).
• Strong analytical skills (experience building, evaluating and clearly presenting complex business models is critical).
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to influence others without formal authority.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.

Desired Skills:

• Strong network/connections with the LatAm mobile operators and/or Tier 1 OEM local organizations and/or broadcasters and/or handset distributors and/or retailers.
• MBA Preferred.

Product Manager

(full-time position, location: Sunnyvale, CA)

Responsibilities:

• Drive product planning efforts including business cases (MRD/PRD/ROI) and market investigations/tracking.
• Define product features and specifications; validate, and dynamically update against evolving market requirements.
• Make product decisions (business & technical) on behalf of the market & corporate requirements (& escalate appropriately).
• Drive operational programs across functional boundaries.
• Manage the product lifecycle including the business plan, product requirements/validation, driving the development, datasheets, sampling, production, positioning, PCNs, collateral, competitive analysis, roadmap, etc.
• Contribute to the definition of business plans, marketing strategy, and own forecasts for assigned products. Maintains status of customer requirements for existing and future products.
• Manage customer opportunities & engagements. Direct & coordinate the efforts of the customer/product team including sales, distributors, applications, & R&D.
• Promote Telegent products to customers; analyze opportunities to find sockets for Telegent products in customer products and applications.
• Direct Sales and Distributors to identified sockets and enable and assist them to win designs.

Requirements:

• 5 – 7+ years experience in semiconductor marketing.
• Ability to understand IC architectures, receivers, audio/video systems, RF+DSP products, and interact with engineers.
• Experience with consumer markets such as handsets and personal computers.
• Experience with wireless and/or video technologies.

Ideal/Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated business sense and logical judgment.
• Good communication skills – both written and oral.
• Good ability to execute deliverables, set own milestones, and deliver against commitments.
• Passionate about marketing and customer engagement.
• Good potential for future growth.

Sr. Manager, Production & Inventory Control - Hong Kong

(full-time position, location: Hong Kong)

Job Responsibilities

• Manage Master Planning using ASCP planning tool – based on Sales forecast, WIP management.
• Good communication and ability to travel to US and subcontractors as required.
• Will manage/supervise Production Control, Purchasing and inventory for HK office.
• Responsible for quarterly cycle counts and Fiscal Year End inventory audits at all subcontractor sites.
• Work direct with Finance regarding inventory reconciliations and month end responsibilities.
• Direct interface with Customer Service and Sales regarding distributors and Tier 1 customer requirements.
• Direct interface with Operations for assembly, test and logistics requirements for each product, customer.
• Direct interface with Oracle BSA for Oracle related issues with regards to problems, reports and enhancements.
• Required to travel periodically to subcontractors and US as required.

Required Skills

• Must have Semiconductor experience in planning and inventory management – this is mandatory.
• Must have experience working with assembly and test subcontractors that support Semiconductor.
• Working knowledge of major MES/ERP such as Oracle or SAP (Oracle preferred).
• Oracle OSFM experience is definitely a plus.
• Oracle ASCP experience a plus (Advance Supply Chain Planning tool).
• Bachelor's Degree desired.

Staff/Sr. Staff Engineer, Systems Characterization

(full-time position, location: Sunnyvale)

Responsibilities:

The candidate will characterize leading-edge SoCs so as to ensure that all Telegent products released to the field meet the highest standards.

Requirements:

• System characterization experience for highly integrated SoCs with understanding of device characterization and validation methods.
• Ability to work across many disciplines (RF, digital HW, signal processing) with practical hands-on experience.
• Solid understanding of analog TV standards PAL, NTSC and SECAM.
• Experience with video and audio performance/quality metrics for analog and digital TV broadcast.
• Familiarity with device specification and parameters is required.
• Familiar with various test equipments and experience with equipment automation setups (i.e. broadcast test systems, audio analyzers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
• Excellent problem solving skills, strong analysis skills, independent thinker.
• Ability to communicate efficiently with cross-functional teams to analyze and resolve silicon, board, or firmware issues.
• Good team player with mindset to move things forward.
• Experience with at least 2 of the following: Matlab, Labview, C/C++ and/or Perl.

Desired:

• Experience with RF and analog circuits characterization such as RF receivers, ADCs/DACs, PLLs.
• Knowledge of analog / digital communication theory.

Educational Requirements:

• Advanced degree +5-7 years experience preferred.

Hardware Field Applications Engineer

(full-time position in Field Applications Engineering, location: Taiwan)

Provide hardware support to customers integrating Telegent products into their designs.

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers during initial evaluation, design integration and ongoing manufacturing phases.
• Troubleshoot RF analog and digital design issues at the component level.
• Establish close technical relationships with customer teams to ensure quick and efficient resolution of issues.
• Identify and analyze all reported customer issues, and solve technical issues to the extent possible.
• Work closely with the entire customer team, including Sales, Program Management, and Applications Engineering.
• Escalate, as necessary, critical customer issues and provide timely warning of issues that need attention.

Job Requirements

• Excellent trouble-shooting skills.
• Experience with the operation of a variety of laboratory equipment: signal generators, multimeters, and equipment suitable for RF testing (Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer).
• Experience with OrCAD schematics and PADS tools, or equivalent ones.
• Organized, self-starter, team player, excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous board-level electronic design experience is beneficial.
• Previous experience in a direct customer support role is beneficial.
• Previous experience with any of the following is beneficial: Digital or Analog video standards, mobile video applications, tuners, cellular and/or laptop applications.

Education and Work Experience

• BSEE with 3 years experience or MSEE with 1 year experience.

Lab Technician/Engineer

(full-time position in Product Development, location: Sunnyvale)

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with RF characterization team to support advanced RFIC product evaluation and characterization including: test setup and debug, executing test suites, collecting test results, processing data and presenting information in a clear and logical manner to help drive engineering decisions.
• Support engineers in the lab with equipment setup & maintenance, IC and board testing, chip evaluation, test debug, board rework & soldering, troubleshooting RF/analog and digital circuits, and overall hardware support.

Requirements:

• Experience with the operation of a variety of laboratory equipment including: power supplies, signal generators, multimeters, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and other equipment suitable for RF testing.
• RF laboratory experience and demonstrated efficiency with board debug & rework and ability to solder small SMA components. Must be familiar with standard RF components, cables, connectors, etc.
• Organized, self-starter, team player, good written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiar with typical Windows applications, and high proficiency with MS Excel (pivot tables, data analysis and manipulation, graphs/formatting/information pesentation important).

Prefer:

• Familiarity with standard RF tests including IP3, NF, Gain, Phase noise, Sensitivity, S-parameter measurement, etc.
• Ability to implement test automation using Labview software.
• Proficiency with Matlab a plus.

Educational Requirements:

BSEE with 0-3 years of work experience or 10+ years of relevant laboratory experience.