Senior Systems Engineer

Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, is looking for an experienced and talented Systems Engineer to take on a critical role with expansive responsibilities to enhance our growing organization. Syntiant seeks a motivated and creative individual to work in a fast-paced, market-oriented R&D team environment, developing MEMS and ASIC technology for microphones and related mobile platform applications.

A strong preference will be given to individuals with experience in semiconductor technology and/or acoustics. The individual is expected to be a critical thinker who can use data and measurements to make effective product-level decisions.

• Create and maintain product development schedule, coordinate and drive engineering deliverables across multi functional/global engineering team
• Support backend product development of new product introductions, ensuring smooth ramp and execution from design and prototypes to mass production
• Responsible for the design, modelling and verification of the electro-acoustic performance of the MEMS microphone
• Guide failure analysis activities to determine root cause of complex system-level issues arising from reliability, qualification, and customer returns.
• Pre-silicon: understand product features and design targets, ensure robust characterization and qualification plans, align on test requirements.
• Post-silicon: lead system-level evaluation and debug, communicate risks, develop and manage statistical DoEs, make product-level data-driven decisions, interface with component team PEs (ASIC, MEMS).
• Work across a global team to drive quality and yield, while ensuring robust and smooth qualification plans with defined success criteria.
• Lead development of new analytical techniques and influence team members to become a more data-driven organization.
• Define data structures and storage, evaluate data quality, and perform appropriate data analyses using software such as Python, JMP, R, Python or MATLAB.

• Degree in engineering or related (eg. Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics).
• Demonstrated experience in semiconductor fabrication processes (CMOS, MEMS) and high-level device circuitry.
• Comfortable working across a range of audio and semiconductor characterization techniques and equipment (eg. micro-probing, parametric analyzers, oscilloscopes, Audio Precision analyzers, SEM, OBIRCH).
• Strong background in data analysis, data quality, statistics, and design of experiments.
• Fluency in scripting/programming languages, specifically Python and SQL. Other nice to haves include R, JMP, and MATLAB.
• Background and understanding of audio devices, circuits, and methodology is a strong plus.
• Background and understanding of data science techniques, data structures, database design and implementation is a plus.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors.

Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital. More information on the company can be found by visiting

One element in our total compensation package is base pay. The starting base pay for this role is targeted to be between $100,000 - $115,000. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to previous experience and skills acquired prior to joining Syntiant, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company.

It is to be expected that candidates will come to us with different sets of skills and experiences and therefore will be paid at different points in the stated range. We recognize that the person(s) we select for hire may be less experienced or more experienced than the role as posted; if this is the case, any updates to available salary ranges will be communicated with candidates during the recruitment process.