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Kent Smith

Kent Smith is a Senior Business Development Manager at Talent 101. He is responsible for managing the semiconductor engineering solutions at Talent 101’s clients. His expertise includes recruiting and workforce solutions, and working with engineering groups at Talent 101’s clients to improve business performance.
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Digital Designer & Semiconductor Engineer Available

Posted on February 01, 2017 by Kent Smith

Kishore – Digital Designer

  • Talented semiconductor engineer with extensive experience in the high-tech industry
  • ASIC Physical Design
  • Front-End Development  
  • Flow Implementation  
  • SoC Integration
  • Design Verification
  • Machine Learning
  • Product Management
  • B.S. in Computer Engineering
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Certified SolidWorks Mechanical Designer Available

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Kent Smith

Thomas – Mechanical Designer

  • Certified SolidWorks/Professional
  • Design for manufacturability
  • PDM
  • GD & T
  • Rapid Prototyping/3D Printing
  • Sheet Metal
  • Large Assembly Design (1000+ parts)
  • Surface Modeling
  • Machining
  • Hydraulic/pneumatic systems
  • 3D rendering/animation
  • SolidWorks/3D Via Composer/AutoCAD
  • AAS - Drafting & Design Technologies
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Senior IC Layout Design Engineering Leader Available

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Kent Smith

Maria– Senior Layout Engineer  

  • Senior IC Layout Designer/Leader with strong people, team-building, and project management skills.
  • Lead Layout Designer, for new Rad Hard Microwave 10GHZ designs.
  • Utilizing SiGe IBM,HP for RF circuitry (TX, RX), etc.
  • Created various IP in 45nm blocks.
  • Trained on the new 10nm FinFET process.
  • Performed layout on various FinFET Macros.
  • Utilizing bicmos 8HP- 90nm, and cms 9flp-130nm for RF Circuitry.
  • Currently kicking off new 14nm FinFET IBM projects for various new designs.
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Circuit Design + Layout Engineer Available

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Kent Smith

Rene – Circuit Design/Layout Engineer

  • CMOS Digital 16x16 crossbar switch - Tools: Cadence Virtuoso.
  • Designed a digital switch using 16:1 multiplexer and 64-bit shift register on IBM 180 nm CMOS technology.
  • Performed DRC, LVS and parasitic extraction along with post-layout simulation for the PCB layout of the circuit.
  • Achieved an overall speed of 22.93 GHz for the entire circuit.
  • Datapath synchronous controller design - Tools: Altera Quartus II.
  • Designed an ASIC using a datapath and controller to perform the Newton-Raphson equation to calculate inverse of a number.
  • Modeled the controller using only Verilog and used schematic capture and Verilog for the datapath.
  • Worked on block level synthesis, circuit debugging and static timing analysis on the entire design.
  • CMOS DC-DC boost converter - Tools: Cadence Virtuoso.
  • Designed and simulated a DC-DC converter using boost topology which increases a low input dc voltage to a high dc voltage.
  • Utilized the analog design environment on Cadence to run transient and dc simulations on multiple nodes of the circuit.
  • Obtained a dc output of 1.5 V for a dc input of 0.8 V using TSMC 130 nm CMOS technology.
  • Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.
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PCB Layout Designer Available

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Kent Smith

Jake – PCB Layout Designer

  • Mentor Expedition
  • Mentor Design Capture
  • Mentor DX Designer
  • Cadence Allegro
  • Cadence HDL
  • OrCAD/Cadence Design Entry CIS
  • Altium
  • Pads
  • Seica Viva
  • AAS Electronics Engineering Technologies
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Embedded Hardware Engineer Available

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Kent Smith

Abdul– Embedded Hardware Engineer  

  • Experienced Professional with over 8 years of expertise in Hardware Design and Verification development, embedded software development.
  • Experience in RTL Design, Synthesis, Simulation, and Verification of digital systems.
  • Expertise in modeling tools like Matlab/Simulink.
  • Verification experience using System Verilog, and assertions, Randomization.
  • Embedded software development experience using C, C++, assembly, and microcode for device drivers.
  • Experienced in creating test environments to run automated tests and verification performed Functional, Unit, and Subsystem testing.
  • Very good exposure to software development life cycle like Feasibility, Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance.
  • Programming Languages: C, Python, Verilog, System Verilog, C++, TCL, UVM (Basics).
  • Design/Simulation Tools:  VCS, Modelsim, Synopsys Design Compiler, PrimeTime, Matlab.
  • Schematic/Layout Tools:  Cadence Allegro, CIS, Cadence innovos.
  • RTOS : MQX- Freescale.
  • IPC : Sockets, Semaphores, Message Queues, Shared memory, Pipes.
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Mechanical Designer & Manufacturing Engineer With 10+ Years Experience

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Kent Smith

Demarco – Mechanical Designer & Manufacturing Engineer

  • 10 + years experience as a Mechanical Designer & Manufacturing Engineer.
  • Strong technical skills in product development and manufacturing support, in various production environments.
  • Design experience includes die-cast, plastic (injection molded, casted, and extruded), forgings, sheet metal, and machined parts.
  • Diverse computer skills that include SolidWorks and Microsoft Office.
  • Experience developing and maintaining mechanical/electrical SPP components.
  • Technical review and editing of SolidWorks models and drawings of components used in complex medical device assemblies.
  • Supported Document and Quality Control activities.
  • Freelance product and tooling design (SolidWorks/DraftSight).
  • Created part and assembly product drawings using SolidWorks.
  • Master of Science in Engineering Technology.
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Quality Assurance + Product Engineer Available

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Kent Smith

Chen – Quality Assurance/Product Engineer

  • Product/Test Engineering-
    • NPI and sustaining activities on mixed-signal, non-volatile memory, high-voltage DMOS technologies, analog electronics and consumer products, involving characterization, qualification, failure analysis and yield enhancement.
    • Test program generation for production, characterization and reliability using in both ATE and C/Python-based PC test equipment environments.  
    • Proficient in functional testing & parametric power analysis as well as statistical analysis using DataPower, Syntricity, SQL & JMP.  
    • Arduino processor board programming and Solidworks experience.
  • Technical writing on product datasheets, application notes, and automotive qualification packages.    
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Senior Electrical Engineer Now Available

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Kent Smith

Diego – Senior Electrical Engineer  

  • Development and implementation of service tool communication protocol for communication.
  • New Product Development.
  • Communication protocol development in embedded C controls.
  • Developing device driver and BSP.
  • Development of Real Time embedded software.
  • Software architectures.
  • Digital Signal Processing.
  • Serial communications UART, I2C, Modbus, CAN bus and peripheral interfaces.
  • Integration of protocol stacks.
  • Analog and digital circuit controls hardware test and design.
  • BS in Electrical Engineering.
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Electronic Designer with 10+ Years Experience Available

Posted on January 09, 2017 by Kent Smith

Aurora – Electronic Designer

    • Experience in Electrical Drafting and Design for 10 years.
    • Experience in Heat Tracing Design using VisiTrace software.
    • Proficient in AutoCAD, Bentley Micro Station and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
    • Proficient in DC and AC circuit analysis, basic electronics, digital logics, and network analysis.  
    • Experience and training in PDS Electrical Raceway and Modeling.
    • Experience in Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012.
    • Experience in 3D Modeling and design with CADWorx Plant and ElectroMOD.  
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