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full time Hardware Design Manager

at Icron Technologies Corporation in Burnaby

Position: Hardware Design Manager
Company: Icron Technologies Corporation
Date Posted: June 24, 2008
City: Burnaby

Job Description:

The Opportunity

Are you a strong and experienced hardware designer with the ability to effectively manage and direct others? If you are a system design ace and can lead a hardware and system design team to do great things, show us how you will be a critical asset to Icron and how you are going to help transform the next generation of USB extension and networking chipsets.

We are building a first-class engineering team, with a requirement for a keen, savvy Hardware Design Manager to drive the evolution of our patented USB bridging technology.

The Hardware Engineering Manager is responsible for providing technical leadership in the development of commercial and consumer system-level products for Icron’s ExtremeUSB technology.

As Hardware Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and motivating team of development engineers, support engineers, and consultants. Within the engineering organization, you will coordinate with the ASIC team and with the office of the CTO. You will also work closely with product marketing and manufacturing in the definition, development, and introduction of Icron products and solutions into the marketplace.

This position reports to the VP Engineering, and is based at company headquarters in Burnaby, BC.

The Candidate

You are an extremely skilled and proactive hardware design engineer with 8+ years of systems design and project management experience plus a minimum of 3 years of successful team management experience, and have a long and solid record of producing desired results.

You are eager to solve problems and produce products. You will be able to juggle hands-on design work with directing the work of others.

You will provide technical, engineering process, and work flow leadership to the HW design staff, will provide systems engineering feedback to other groups at Icron and external Icron partners, and will work closely with manufacturing.

You have demonstrated proficiency in:

• Guiding, motivating, and mentoring others. Establishing priorities and tasks for a technical team across multiple projects, and repeated success in meeting schedules. Building tools and procedures that support excellence.
• Broad system expertise in interconnection technology (Ethernet, 802.11, USB, PLC) and digital video technology (DVI, HDMI)
• Design expertise that covers complex multi-chip boards including issues of timing, power, and signal integrity. FPGA development using VHDL or Verilog.
• Developing architectures balancing features, cost, power, size and manufacturability

And knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• FPGAs, processors, DSP devices, power supplies, and clocking elements
• DFT and DFM, manufacturing support, and cost control
• Experience dealing with EMI issues and managing regulatory approval processes (FCC, CE, etc.)

You will be a key contributor to our development efforts, and must be proficient in working within a mixed software/hardware/FPGA/ASIC development environment.

The successful candidate must be legally able to work in Canada and will have completed at least a Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Engineering or related field. A Masters degree is desirable.

The Company

Icron is the global leader in enabling solutions that require extended range USB connectivity. Our patented ExtremeUSB® technology, the only USB-IF compliant extension solution, transparently bridges any USB 1.1 or 2.0 connection over any media (UTP, fiber, power line, or any RF technology) for applications in industrial, commercial, and consumer or home environments. The company also provides a range of engineering and development services focused on unique USB connectivity issues.

Icron Technologies Corporation (TSX Venture: IT), was ranked as the number one technology issuer on the 2005 TSX Venture 50tm. In 2006, Icron was ranked one of Business in Vancouver's Fastest Growing Companies as well as one of the Profit 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Canada.

For more information, please visit www.icron.com.

Response Information:

Please email your resume together with a covering letter to hr@icron.com. Ensure that ‘Hardware Design Manager’ is included in the subject line. Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

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