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Customized Application Specific Solutions

At Orca Semi our passion is to address our customers real world analog problems and innovate solutions that enable life changing products to be realized.

Why settle for "good enough" when you can have a customized solution that better fits your needs, improving performance as well as meeting commercial goals.

We are developing innovations based on intimate customer partnerships to realize application specific value-added solutions.

Optimized solutions to improve the efficiency of Connected Health Devices

Optimized solutions for connectivity in the efficient Smart Factory

Interested to find out more? Email us at info@orcasemi.com

Executive Team

Orca Semi was founded by experienced analog IC solution innovators that have spent decades defining, developing, and successfully marketing world class solutions for the industry’s largest analog semiconductor companies (Maxim Integrated/Analog Devices, Intersil, ST and Freescale).

“We believe in the need for intimate customer partnerships, timely execution and solving worthwhile customer challenges.” - Andrew Baker, CEO

Careers

We are recruiting team members that will accelerate our vision and mission.

Here at Orca Semi, we offer a flexible working environment with a focus on delivering results supporting our mission. You will become a member of a fast paced, agile and collaborative culture that will have a direct impact. Our mission to partner with our customers and innovate solutions that meet our customer expectations is at the core of everything we do.

We are seeking individuals that are self driven, dynamic and not afraid to "lean in" to be the difference that contributes to success.

Check-out our open positions below:

San Jose, CA

Analog IC Design Engineer - Milan, Italy & Surrounding Areas

Orca Semi is looking for experienced IC Engineers in the Milan, Italy area. Our immediate focus is to produce industry leading low quiescent power solutions for wearable applications and high voltage communication interfaces for the Smart Factory market. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in mixed signal design, a deep understanding of analog circuitry, excellent knowledge of simulation tools and a background designing with BCD semiconductor technologies.

You must be highly motivated, and capable to take the initiative to drive for results. Since Orca Semi has multiple locations, communication and cooperation with distributed teams is key to a successful design, making English proficiency required. You will work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing environment and will be exposed to the entire life cycle of our products. Your close cooperation with experienced leaders will offer opportunities for quick professional growth. You will be a key contributor to the company success, not just another member of a large organization and your contributions will be visible and rewarded.

Job Responsibilities:

• Architecture, design, and verification of analog and mixed-signal circuits
  
• Analyze and simulate circuit behavior using Cadence tools
  
• Supervise layout activity
  
• Support silicon validation activities
  
• Contribute to test program development and customer engagement
  

Minimum Requirements:

• Masters Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in analog IC circuit design
• Familiarity with Cadence EDA tools
• Good English speaking/reading/writing skills

To apply, please send your resume/CV to HR@orcasemi.com stating the job title you are interested in.

IC Layout Engineer - Milan, Italy & Surrounding Areas

Orca Semi is looking for IC layout engineers in the Milan, Italy area. Our immediate focus is to produce industry leading low quiescent power solutions for wearable applications and high voltage communication interfaces for the Smart Factory market. The ideal candidate will have experience in mixed signal layout techniques, an understanding of analog processes and knowledge of layout tools.

You must be highly motivated, and capable to take the initiative to drive for results. Since Orca Semi has multiple locations, communication and cooperation with distributed teams is key to a successful design, making English proficiency required. You will work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing environment. Your close cooperation with experienced leaders will offer opportunities for quick professional growth. You will be a key contributor to the company success, not just another member of a large organization and your contributions will be visible and rewarded.

Job Responsibilities:

• In cooperation with project team develop block layout from floor plan to tape out
  
• Work closely with designers to optimize block performance and area
• Run physical verification on blocks (LVS, DRC, parasitic extraction...)
• Generate detailed layout schedule and track progress

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in analog IC Layout
• Experience with Cadence layout tools
• Knowledge of semiconductor device physics, cross-section, and construction
• Good English speaking/reading/writing skills

To apply, please send your resume/CV to HR@orcasemi.com stating the job title you are interested in.

Digital IC Design Engineer - Milan, Italy & Surrounding Areas

Orca Semi is looking for experienced IC Engineers in the Milan, Italy area. Our immediate focus is to produce industry leading low quiescent power solutions for wearable applications and high voltage communication interfaces for the Smart Factory market. The ideal candidate will have good experience in digital design, a good understanding of digital design flow, excellent knowledge of Mixed Signal metric-driven Functional Verification methodologies. You must be highly motivated, and capable to take the initiative to drive for results. Since Orca Semi has multiple locations, communication and cooperation with distributed teams is key to a successful design, making English proficiency required. You will work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing environment and will be exposed to the entire life cycle of our products. Your close cooperation with experienced leaders will offer opportunities for quick professional growth. You will be a key contributor to the company success, not just another member of a large organization and your contributions will be visible and rewarded.

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the definition and document digital subsystem architecture, optimizing for area, power and performance.
  
• Describe modules of the digital subsystem using Verilog or System Verilog HDL.
  
• Plan and execute metric-driven functional verification using System Verilog testbenches. If applicable, UVM can be used.
  
• Perform code linting, logic synthesis applying testability and power reduction techniques, logic equivalence checks, back-annotated static timing analysis, power analysis.
  
• Apply Design for Test (DFT) techniques, perform internal scan chain insertion, Automatic Test Patterns Generation (ATPG), plan functional test vectors if needed.
  
• Coordinate with the Physical Implementation Team for digital floorplan optimization
  
• Contribute and support silicon validation and debug.
  
• Optimize design procedures speed up with self-developed or existing scripts in a script language (ex: Python, PERL, TCL/Tk, shell or similar)
  
• Constantly pursue self-development in areas of weakness and/or design technology updates
  

Minimum Requirements:

• ·MS Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
  
• ·4+ years of experience in digital IC circuit design
  
• ·Familiarity with Unix OS, scripting languages, Text editors and/or IDE for RTL development
  
• ·Familiarity with Cadence Front-End EDA tools
  
• ·Knowledge of Backend EDA tools and notions of DSP are preferred
  
• ·Good English speaking/reading/writing skills
  

To apply, please send your resume/CV to HR@orcasemi.com stating the job title you are interested in.