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Job Opening at KDPOF: Automotive Business Development Manager

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Fabless semiconductor supplier KDPOF provides innovative high-speed optical networking for harsh environments. Making gigabit communications over fiber optics a reality, KDPOF technology supplies 1 Gb/s POF links for automotive, industrial, and home networks. Founded in 2010 in Madrid, Spain, KDPOF offer their cost-effective technology as either ASSP or IP (Intellectual Property) to be integrated in SoCs (System-on-Chips). KDPOF has about 50 employees, we are in full expansion due to the development of innovative products in the sector and the creation of a unique factory in Spain. As a result, we are looking for an Automotive Business Development Manager (Graduate).

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Quality Engineer - job opening with KDPOF in Madrid, Spain

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The Quality Engineer is responsible for leading and maintaining all required automotive industry quality compliance procedures. Additionally, the Quality Engineer acts as a liaison with suppliers and customers relating to quality requests and testing processes.

Responsibilities of the Quality Engineer include

  • Assist quality manager to develop, implement and maintain the Quality and Environment Management System.
  • Monitor and assist manufacturing in process control and development. Collect, review, and react to data collected within the manufacturing process per the control plan. Ensure the update and maintenance of the capability studies (SPC data collection). Support continuous improvement efforts.

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Production and Test Engineer

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For our job opening of a Production and Test Engineer in Madrid, we are enhancing our team with a person in charge of production test development, analysis of production data, product reliability assurance and production test continuous improvement during production.

The responsibilities of a Production and Test Engineer include:

  • Development and improvement of the test programs used in production, to optimize the test time, coverage and yield, while guaranteeing product reliability.
  • Analysis of production data (test results, PCM, etc.).
  • Definition of test flows for specification of parametric limits and criteria for functional pass / fail.
  • Participation in the definition and execution of reliability tests and qualification flows.
  • Participation in specification and review of the wafer sort and final test PCBs and the test programs used to implement the production testing of the company’s products.
  • Participation in analysis of customer returns and field returns.
  • Participation in risk analysis (like FMEA) and definition of the control plan.
  • Interfacing with test equipment vendors.
  • Participation in production test installation and debug.
  • Working in close collaboration with R&D team.

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Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Implement ASIC / SoCs / FPGAs for multiple products, starting at the specification & design phase, continuing through technology selection, implementation, and validation. Innovation in performance, power and cost to build the best possible product is a must.
  • Participate in all phases of ASIC / FPGA design flow (Synthesis, Place & Route, and Timing Closure) as required.
  • Work with backend teams to address any layout and timing issues for ASICs.
  • Verification by emulation with FPGAs in the lab.
  • Involvement in lead-up, validation, characterization and qualification phases of ASICs.

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Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Verify digital logic using SystemVerilog and reusable, standardized methodologies. Verify digital systems that use both custom and standard IP components and interconnects, including microprocessor cores and hierarchical memory subsystems.
  • Contribute to verification and modeling at the chip top level.
  • Debug tests with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks. Work closely with the design and test teams to define test specifications, verification plans and manufacturing transfer.

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Job opening: Senior Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Specification of the analog and mixed signal blocks that are embedded in the system (ADC, DAC, PLL, data interfaces, optoelectronics …).
  • Design (from schematic to full verification at extracted level) of the analog and mixed-signal blocks in sub-nanometric CMOS processes. It means being involved in the full AMS design flow: system-level design, schematic, layout and full verification.
  • Definition of layout guidelines for layout engineers and review of their work.
  • Collaboration with the test engineers for the testing definition of the fabricated ICs. Review and analysis of lab characterization data for validation and correlation with simulation results.

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Tasks and Responsibilities

Member of the R&D team in charge of the development of embedded firmware running on the company integrated circuits microprocessors, as well as development of the test programs used in production testing. The responsibilities of the Firmware/Test Engineer also include:

  • Development of the continuous integration tests of the microprocessor firmware during ASIC prototyping.
  • Participate in specification and review of the PCBs used to implement the production testing of the company’s products.
  • Participation on the development of technology evaluation vehicles as well as software development kits.
  • Automatization of laboratory tests and measurements using programming languages like Matlab, TCL, Python.

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