(ASIC - Data Center), Design Engineer

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(ASIC - Data Center), Design Engineer– Socionext America – Milpitas, CA

Description

Socionext America Inc. (SNA)

Socionext Inc., world’s second largest fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops and delivers leading edge System-on-Chip custom silicon solutions to global customers. The company is focused on datacenter, compute server, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, automotive and industrial automation market segments that drive today’s leading-edge services and applications. Socionext combines world-class expertise, deep enterprise class product development experience, and an extensive IP portfolio to provide differentiating solutions. Socionext Inc. is headquartered in Shin-Yokohama, and has offices in Japan, United States, Europe and Asia.

We are seeking a Design Engineer looking for a Marketing role within our Data Center business.

The primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Create Data Center market technologies inflexion insights

• Develop Market Requirements Document (MRD) by engaging with market leading customers and capturing technology needs, systems roadmaps

• Study emerging market and industry technology trends

• Develop datacenter business opportunities and win strategies

• Advocate IP offerings roadmap to customers and collect feedback

• Working closely with management to drive all phases of customer design wins and execution

Requirements for this position:

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE, Masters preferred

• 8+ years of experience with data center networking, storage and server products (knowledge of data center interconnects)

• Must have experience in networking and storage industry. In depth knowledge of Storage applications is required. Familiarity with solid state storage is a plus.

• Requires an excellent understanding of ASIC design and manufacturing flows, including a good grasp of the competitive landscape

• Knowledge required – ASIC Marketing, CNICs/HBAs, PCIe, NVMe, Flash, SSD, SATA, SAS, iSCSI

• Ability to guide products through development, including the definition and trade off analysis of architectures and new features for the components required for Data Center ASIC

• Ability to lead with varied goals and objectives to achieve business unit’s direction and purpose

• Ability to use financial tools such as ROI and NPV analysis to build business cases.

• Teamwork, dedication, strong communications and interpersonal skills

• Some travel ~10%