{"id":3850342,"url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-principal-asic-engineer","title":"Principal ASIC Engineer","company":{"id":6413,"name":"Echodyne","domain":"echodyne.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/echodyne-corp","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":5,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.6,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":42,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Kirkland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":164594,"max":246788,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":246788},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T01:03:34Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T06:11:10Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Radar Reinvented.\nEchodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).\nEchodyne is seeking a Principal ASIC Engineer to join our fast-growing team. \nROLE OVERVIEW\nEchodyne is seeking a Principal ASIC Engineer to join our Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Engineering team and lead the development and lifecycle support of custom integrated circuits for our advanced radar products.\nAs Echodyne’s ASIC subject-matter expert, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across the silicon development lifecycle, supporting the manufacturability and long-term continuity of existing devices while also establishing the design methods, tool flows, and technical foundation needed to deliver future ASICs in-house from product definition through production release. The ideal candidate combines deep IC-design expertise with Principal-level technical judgment, external-partner leadership, and a strong understanding of semiconductor economics.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nOwn the long-term manufacturability, production continuity, and sustaining support of Echodyne’s existing ASIC(s). Lead the technical evaluation, qualification, and controlled release of foundry, process-node, package, assembly, test, and material changes, and resolve associated yield, reliability, quality, and obsolescence risks.\nCollaborate with Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, and other technical stakeholders to translate product and system needs into ASIC requirements and architectures. Lead ASIC-level functional partitioning and trade studies involving power, performance, area, process technology, intellectual property, packaging, test strategy, and make-versus-buy decisions.\nLead ASIC development from specification through production release, including analog, digital, and mixed-signal design; design verification; physical implementation and sign-off; design for test; tape-out; silicon bring-up; characterization; qualification; and production ramp. Define technical plans, review gates, risk mitigations, and readiness criteria throughout the development cycle.\nLead technical relationships with ASIC design partners, foundries, intellectual property (IP) providers, electronic design automation (EDA) vendors, packaging suppliers, and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) providers. Evaluate technical capabilities and proposals, define statements of work and acceptance criteria, review deliverables, and resolve technical issues.\nProvide technical and cost inputs to ASIC sourcing decisions in partnership with Supply Chain. Evaluate non-recurring engineering (NRE), mask-set, wafer, yield, packaging, assembly, test, licensing, and production-volume economics to support supplier selection and commercial negotiations.\nProvide Principal-level technical leadership for ASIC development and lifecycle support. Establish design methods, review and sign-off practices, tool flows, data and configuration controls, and reusable development standards. Preserve technical knowledge, mentor engineers, and contribute to the development of future ASIC capabilities within the team.\nREQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE\nProven record of delivering production ASICs across the complete development lifecycle, including successful tape-outs, silicon bring-up, and productization\nBroad knowledge of analog, digital, and mixed-signal ASIC development, with deep design expertise in at least one domain and sufficient breadth to lead integration and sign-off across the complete device\nExperience managing foundry, process-node, package, assembly, or test transitions for production ASICs, including technical risk assessment and requalification\nStrong understanding of semiconductor product engineering, including design for test, production test, post-silicon characterization, yield improvement, reliability qualification, and failure analysis\nDemonstrated success technically directing external ASIC design services and semiconductor suppliers against defined requirements, deliverables, quality expectations, and acceptance criteria\nWorking knowledge of semiconductor cost structures and business models, with experience supporting make-versus-buy, sourcing, and commercial decisions\nAbility to operate from broad direction, align technical execution with established program and organizational priorities, make complex cross-disciplinary technical decisions, manage technical risks, and communicate recommendations clearly to internal teams and external partners\nDemonstrated ability to establish engineering methods, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and strengthen team capability through influence and collaboration\nDESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) \nExperience developing ASICs for radar, sensing, aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability, long-lifecycle products\nExperience assuming technical ownership of an externally developed ASIC or transferring ASIC design knowledge and data between organizations\nDirect design experience across both analog or mixed-signal and digital IC domains\nExperience contributing to the establishment of new ASIC development flows, design environments, and external-partner operating models within a growing engineering organization\nQUALIFICATION\nBS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field and at least 15 years of relevant ASIC-development experience, or an equivalent combination of education and industry experience\nEchodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. \nWHAT WE OFFER\nThis is an exempt role.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is\n$164,594—$246,788 USD\nIf your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!\nWe offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:\nRSU (Restricted Stock Units)\nGenerous Benefits:\nFully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you \nChoice of PPO or HDHP/HSA\nVirtual Care - 98Point6\nEmployee Assistance Program\nMental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)\nTravel Assistance Insurance\nCompany Paid Life Insurance\nCompany Paid Short & Long Term Disability\nFlexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)\n401(k) match\nPet Insurance\nPrepaid Legal Program\nCommuter Benefits\nPaid Company Holidays\nAll qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7584,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["RF & Wireless Hardware","C4ISR"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T02:52:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":246788,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-principal-asic-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/echodyne-principal-asic-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T09:16:34Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20138,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6413},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6413"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fechodyne-principal-asic-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fechodyne-principal-asic-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fechodyne-principal-asic-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/echodyne-principal-asic-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fechodyne-principal-asic-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3850342}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"echodyne.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3850342},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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