Applications Team Compliance Lab Manager - Taipei

Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy efficient chip-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of not just the customers of today, but of tomorrow too. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.

We are actively seeking an Applications Team Compliance Lab Manager based in Taipei.

Key responsibilities

• Provide best in class support to customer projects in Asia, to resolve challenging technical issues and ensure successful integration of Kandou’s IP and product solutions

• Maintain ISO-9001 certified lab in Taiwan

• Maintain lab processes per internal standards

• Interface with technology vendors to manage and maintain lab equipment’s calibration and maintenance cycles

• Manage OEM/ODM requests for pre-compliance testing at EVT/DVT/PVT stages and generate test reports for them

• Perform compliance testing on strategic technology partners reference boards containing Kandou’s products

• Perform compliance and regression testing on Kandou’s products and evaluation kits

• Participate in industry events organized by standard bodes such as PCI-SIG and USB-IF

• Actively monitor evolving standards and test software evolution to ensure Kandou products are certified against the latest official test cases and automation software

• Maintain a close working relationship with test labs, tool providers and test equipment vendors in Taiwan

• Build a close working relationship with Kandou’s labs in Europe

• Host key customer debug and bring up sessions in the lab to support their transition to mass production

Skills

• Ability to work closely with a variety of internal teams in Hardware and Software Engineering, Systems, Field Applications Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Standards Bodies (USB-IF, PCI-Sig)

• Strong communications skills, comfortable interfacing at all levels internally and within customers’ organizations

• Track record of supporting complex customer designs from concept through to mass production

• Strong team-player and practical hands-on problem solver

• Ability to multitask in a high energy environment

• Capable of engaging with standards bodies (like USB-IF) and driving improvements and engineering changes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and enthusiasm for solving customer problems in a collaborative manner

• Comfortable interfacing and dealing with the demands with some of the largest electronics, OEMs, ODMs companies on the planet in the consumer electronics market

• Experience working with SerDes, USB3, USB4, PCIe, DDR or another relevant high-speed communications bus/protocol would be advantageous

• Project management of multiple concurrent projects in a high-end consumer electronics test and manufacturing environment

• Create and manage test plans, cases, and procedures aligned with product goals, while adjusting them based on customer requirements.

Experience

• Expertise regarding USB and PCIe compliance test and associated test equipment

• Interfacing directly with OEM and ODMs to project management their testing requirements at all stages of the project lifecycle

• Detailed knowledge of signal and power integrity design, layout, manufacturing practices and testing

• Experienced with lab and debug equipment used for interrogation of high-speed signals including oscilloscopes, BERT, VNA, current/voltage probes, AC/DC sources, electronic loads, power supplies.

• Awareness of customer manufacturing techniques, end of line testing, quality assurance and acceptance testing in a high-end consumer electronics environment

• Demonstrable expertise in high-speed signal circuit design, modelling, validation, and debug

• Management, mentoring and leading technical teams

• At least 8 years of relevant work experience, with at least 3 years managing technical teams

• Working closely with internal engineering teams to leverage expertise, improve Kandou’s current solutions, develop IP and influence the roadmap

• Provide technical expertise in both a pre- and post-sales engagements with field teams and customers for queries at all stages of the product lifecycle

• Development of customer facing technical collateral to assist in supporting, demonstrating, evaluating, promoting, and selling Kandou's industry leading retimer and network connectivity products

• Management and mentoring of test and/or applications engineers is not essential but would be advantageous

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in EE, CE, or equivalent work experience

If this is the role you have been looking for and you want to be part of a growing Company, with an exciting future then we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!

Visit us at www.kandou.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kandou-bus-s-a-/