R & D Technical Lead

R&D Technical Lead

Location:  USA - Santa Clara, CA

Department:  R&D

 

Synaptics, the world leader in human interface solutions for portable electronic devices, invites qualified applicants to apply for a career opportunity as a Technical Lead in Research and Development. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with great creativity and technical strength, leadership, and project management skills.
Our Technical Lead will have responsibility for developing technologies for Synaptics? future growth. They will play a critical role in fostering innovation within Synaptics by leading and coordinating a team of highly skilled technical contributors to the successful completion of R&D projects. R&D projects are typically focused on the development of new core-technologies rather than the development of specific products.  As such, our Technical Lead needs very strong and diverse engineering and science skills. He/she will be managing technology development projects that are very multi-disciplinary in nature.  Projects may involve combinations of disciplines such as electronics, physics, software, mathematics, materials, optics, and mechanics. Challenges often faced in such projects are reconciling real-world observations and data with analytical predictions.

In addition to technical contributions, our individual will lead project: definition, scheduling, resourcing and reporting.  They will be expected to combine broad technical skills, project management skills and people skills to lead a talented multi-disciplinary design team.  Our Technical Lead will also interact with internal departments such as Strategic Marketing and Business development as well as external customers to help shape Synaptics? future core-technologies.

Our candidate will have a demonstrated capability to technically lead complex projects that may span from months to, in some cases, a year or more.  We are seeking a team-oriented individual with a positive attitude and excellent problem solving skills, self-driven with keen technical mind and an eye for detail.  He/she must be effective in a fast-paced, highly technical R&D environment.Summary of Minimum RequirementsEngineering/Science Bachelor?s Degree (or higher)Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, plus 3 years experience with technical lead responsibilities such as team leadership, influencing and motivating co-workers, project definition, project scheduling, and resource management.  Must effectively communicate and interact with other internal departments as well as senior management.Strengths in electronics, both analog and digital.Broad technical experience is essential. Skills in some or all of the following areas are necessary:PhysicsSoftware/firmwareMathematicsSignal processingMechanical systemsOpticsMaterialsAbility and willingness to develop and grow in the above technical areasDemonstrated ability to successfully coordinate and drive R&D technology projectsAbility to work in a fast-paced R&D department with technology-oriented deliverables