Career Opportunities

Volterra is currently seeking qualified applicants to join our team. We offer a challenging, flexible work environment with significant opportunities for responsibility and advancement. Work together with a group of highly motivated individuals to help create a new generation of semiconductor products for advanced power delivery applications. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, along with an attractive stock options plan.

If you have the drive to succeed and want to help shape the future of electronic systems, Volterra wants you! Apply via fax, mail or online submission today. Volterra is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All materials submitted will be kept in the strictest confidence.

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Volterra is currently seeking applicants of all experience levels for the following positions:

• Fremont, California
  • Senior System Design Engineer
  • Senior System Design Engineer
  • Senior Thermal Engineer
  • Intellectual Property Counsel

Senior System Design Engineer (Fremont, California)

Essential Job Functions

Candidate will participate in defining new products, writing system specifications and architecting a system solution that will meet customer specs.

Candidate will be required to validate the architecture through simulation and work with the design team to develop IC level specifications.

The candidate will also be responsible for demonstrating that the final power supply solution meets all target application specification.

The candidate is required to be familiar in the majority of the following areas: switching power supply, control theory, analog circuit design.

Education

MS, PhD in Electrical Engineering

Please reference job code 1240-GG when submitting your resume.

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Senior System Design Engineer (Fremont, California)

Essential Job Functions

Architect and design high-performance isolated and non-isolated switched mode power supplies for power management Integrated Circuits (ICs), including system board design, experimental system verification, proposal of control strategy, and support of new microchip design. Duties will include defining system level architecture for new power supply platforms; developing system and IC level specifications; performing power supply topology analysis and selection, control algorithm selection, simulation, and implementation, as well as magnetic component definition and design; creating technical documentation and providing technical guidance to customers; supervising system board layout; and utilizing knowledge of power electronics and magnetic design, control theory and its application to switching power supplies, and analog and digital circuit design practices to perform the duties above.

Education/Experience

M.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or related field, and experience or knowledge of control theory as applied to DC-DC converter topologies and advanced converter modeling; power electronics and magnetics design; simulation skills for switching circuits using simulation software; and analog and digital circuit design practices, including VRM performance and industry standard test methods for power supply characterization.

Please reference job code 1240-123 when submitting your resume.

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Senior Thermal Engineer (Fremont, CA)

Essential Job Functions

Setting up, running and analyzing thermal models at chip, board and system level. Setting up, running, and analyzing thermal/mechanical stress models of device/package at package level, and board level.

Prepare drawings (design/drafting) of components (heat sinks, fixtures) and procuring them for experimental measurements. Conduct thermal/mechanical testing and characterization. Assist with customer applications support and write detail thermal guidelines and reports.

• 5+ yrs experience with MS or 3+ yrs experience with PhD.
• 2+ years of experience using commercially-available CFD tools (preferably FLOTHERM)

Please reference job code 1230 when submitting your resume.

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Intellectual Property Counsel - Contract Basis (Fremont, CA)

Job Responsibilities

• Strategic development and management of patent portfolio related to voltage regulator design and process technologies. Work with R&D and Marketing groups to develop and implement IP strategies to support product development
• Responsible for all aspects of U.S. and foreign prosecution, including drafting applications and responding to Office Actions from the United States Patent and Trademark Office in coordination with outside patent counsel
• Serve as primary interface with engineers, technical staff and IP counsel regarding patent filings and pending applications.
• Participate in the invention identification, disclosure and review process.
• Conduct prior art searches, or infringement and invalidity studies, as necessary.
• Manage and direct outside patent counsel

• 7-10 years of law firm or in-house experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications and portfolio management functions. Background in semiconductor
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• State Bar and Patent Bar memberships required

• Minimum B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Please reference job code 1120 when submitting your resume.

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