Senior Staff Engineer Job Description
Senior staff engineer
provides annapurnaLabs’ Architecture, ASIC design, System development, HW development, SW development, and QA teams information and requirements for successful systems integration.
Senior Staff Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Demonstrates initiative and innovation in actions/ideas, with a constant drive in executing assignments
With the Engineering Managers and/or Director, drives the use of Design for Six Sigma and Design for Manu
Partnering with Business to ensure completeness and common understanding of all requirements
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or other related technical discipline and at least 7 years of Project Engineering experience in a chemical / petrochemical or similar manufacturing environment
Demonstrated record of 6 plus years of combined experience as a Project Manager or Project Engineer for capital or expense projects
In-depth knowledge of project management processes and project execution best practices
Practical working knowledge of chemical processes, process equipment, and general project execution in a team environment
Completes the definition of complex electrical designs, arbitrates design options, and monitors results
Ensures that electrical design meets requirements, works with customer to ensure requirements are totally understood
Implementing and driving best practices for enterprise deployments and software development lifecycle automation
Senior Staff Engineer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Staff Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCIE, ITIL, CCNA, CTS, SSL, CCNP, FE/EIT, GMS, ASME, GD&T
Education for Senior Staff Engineer
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Employers hiring for the senior staff engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Education, Design, Science, Communication, Electronics
Skills for Senior Staff Engineer
Desired skills for senior staff engineer include:
SW development process
Various market segments and of best-of-breed cloud strategies
Data Structures
Memory models
Network and telecommunication protocols
SW design and architecture development process
Synchronization mechanisms
Unix-like operating systems
Algorithms and Design Patterns
Relevant business practices and procedures in professional field
Desired experience for senior staff engineer includes:
Scripting – SIPp, PERL, PHP
Experience with Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis, Mixed Signal Simulation
5+ years of experience as a Chip/Core lead in ASIC/SOC Development for the Wireless Market Segment
Experience with SW or FW Verification
Experience on linux/vxworks
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or relevant equivalent industry experience) is required
Senior Staff Engineer Examples
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Senior Staff Engineer Job Description
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Our company is looking for a senior staff engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior staff engineer
- Prepare 10 Yr
- Participate in various multi-team efforts focused on specific analytic techniques
- Mentor engineering technicians
- Define, plan, prioritize, and track software status for distributed development team
- Work closely with other domains
- Coach and mentor junior software engineers
- Evaluate internal and external change requests using formal Change Management processes
- Lead and/or coordinate reviews (requirements, code, architecture,…) internally or externally
- Technical lead for software integration activities
- Technical lead for 3rd party software integration
Qualifications for senior staff engineer
- Experience in the production of ventilation system design deliverables, Ventilation Flow Diagrams (VFDs), Basis of Design (BoD), Plant Sizing Calculations (Heating/Cooling/Fan Sizing), Control Philosophy
- Experience with NoSQL or relational databases, can speak to pros/cons of different DB methods
- Experience working for a startup, R&D/labs team, or examples of shipping side-projects
- Experience with machine-learning or NLP
- Experience with docker or other containerization systems
- Fluent in programming in Python and shell scripts
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior staff engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior staff engineer
- New assembly subcontractor qualification
- Assembly process deep dive audit
- Set up OCAP to guide subcontractor on test maverick lot disposition relating to product/ die
- Generate build sheet/ marketing outlines drawing for/with subcontractor
- Verify new packages with the ON-Semi design rules
- Work with subcontractor on their DFMEA
- Review and Support 8D process for customer complaints
- Take primary responsibility for making improvements to the environment
- Must be willing to participate in on-call support in the nights & weekends as part of the network engineering team supporting Global Infrastructure
- Coordinate with vendors for hardware and services in cooperation with network management
Qualifications for senior staff engineer
- Interface with engineering, marketing and packaging teams to assist in IC and final product requirements
- At least 10 years of working experience with Master or PhD degree in Electrical engineering
- Willing to travel to mainland China to hold design review and chip related testing
- Thorough understanding of the compilers and related tool chains
- Solid programming skills in C, C++, Java and assembly languages
- Knowledge of compiler internals and ideally internals of Open64 or GCC
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Senior Staff Engineer Job Description
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Our company is looking for a senior staff engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior staff engineer
- Coordinate with PXDrill field engineers to optimize WOB/RPM step tests in addition to documenting tool face control and BHA build tendencies
- Optimize and document connection best practices to ensure pertinent torque and drag data is implemented in future well profile designs
- Participate in and recommend areas for improvement of internally generated programs and procedures, as wells as contractor and service companies
- Analyze effects of various drilling fluids and rheological properties on equivalent circulating densities and hole cleaning
- Enhance drilling hydraulics with emphasis on liner optimization, pump pressure and flow range limitations
- Analyze BHA and drill string dysfunction to advance drilling best practices and BHA design as a function of geology and planned wellbore trajectory
- Review and monitor various BHA performance metrics and identify areas for continuous improvement and optimization using an engineering and data analytics approach
- Support success of rotary steerable systems and serve critical role in development of RTOC for real time drilling optimization and monitoring
- Understand dynamics between point and push the bit rotary steerable systems and provide recommendation based on dysfunction and vibration analytics
- Provide engineering support and root cause analysis for bottom hole failures with goal of increased MTBF and reliability
Qualifications for senior staff engineer
- Hands-on experience in Big Data Components/Frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Hive, NoSQL databases
- Experience in other distributed system components, such as Solr, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Kafka, REST API, is a plus
- Subsystem development experience
- Self-starter with proven record of sound decision for design and development activities
- A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable technical discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum of 8 years of RF engineering design experience
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior staff engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior staff engineer
- Engage in R&D projects to develop innovative RF solutions that boost RF performance of mobile devices
- Apply novel RF solutions to UE products and provide support to development teams by troubleshooting RF-related issues to bring our products to market successfully
- Interface with internal teams such as Software, Product Planning, Hardware and Testing
- Work collaboratively with external suppliers and customers
- Research and identify next generation algorithms in 3D Computer Vision (CV) & Machine Learning fields for adoption into future Flagship Products
- Go-to-Expert on SW Algorithms applicable for Depth Sensing, 3D Reconstruction, Motion-Tracking systems
- Technology Scouting/Sourcing to identify innovations by building and maintaining long-term relationships with technology incubators, start-ups, and vendors
- Conduct In-depth Evaluations and prototyping of emerging CV solutions for integration into future mobile devices
- Build a multi-year roadmap for Computer Vision Technologies
- Identify technology trends and consumer use-cases influencing the future of the mobile device industry
Qualifications for senior staff engineer
- Strong problem solving skills and excellent knowledge in Six Sigma DMAIC approach, Lean principles, DOE, SPC, FMEA, GR&R and other quality improvement tools
- 5+ years of experience with Linux, SQL, JS, Groovy, Perl, AngularJS
- Able to apply design/development tools as required (FMEA, 8D Methodology)
- Self-motivated, independent, ability to prioritize and multi-task, strong sense of personal accountability
- Strong C++ programming abilities
- Expertise in graph theory, EDA software, and algorithm development
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior staff engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior staff engineer
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar field
- You have already learned and delivered in the client-server, distributed architecture software into the billion dollar enterprise market – come prepared to talk about something you personally delivered
- You have owned or been responsible for large sections or the entire end to end operation of software
- You are strong in C, C++, and you have learned new languages and scripting as needed along the way
- Deep understanding of kernel, drivers, on Windows or another OS *in depth* – you are comfortable reverse engineering, debugging, troubleshooting, looking at network traces –all to determine the root cause of a problem or a behavior you need to understand in detail
- Our product is comprised of C (kernel code), exception-denying C++98/03, C++98/03 using libraries like Boost, and C++11/14
Qualifications for senior staff engineer
- A strong knowledge of DRAM, NAND, and other memory systems through academic coursework as a minimum
- Ability to be a strong individual contributor team player
- BSEE minimum required
- Solid understanding of modern verification practices including System Verilog, UVM and assertion based test
- BS in CS or related field, advanced degree desirable
- Development experience in Windows Workflows (WF), WPF, MVVM a plus