Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup SiTime will add 15 new employees in the next year after raising $20 million in new financing. Up to three-quarters of the new hires will be technologists, with the rest in sales and marketing.
The 65-person company was founded in 2005 and makes Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems-based (MEMS) silicon timing devices, which are found in all electronic products and regulate the speed at which they run. The company is looking for MEMS-engineers with a background in mechanical engineering and device physics, said Piyush Sevalia, vice president of marketing. There are also openings for semiconductor analog and mixed-signal designers with knowledge of Matlab, Spice, or other design tools.
Salary and equity compensation packages are competitive with industry standards, Sevalia said. Perks include a free athletic club membership and catered lunches three times a week.
SiTime has a relatively flat organization structure, Sevalia said, so "at every level everyone has an opportunity to have an impact on the company's future."
But with the opportunity to have a big impact, comes a lot of responsibility, and the company hires employees who thrive on taking on a lot of it.
"People have to be comfortable with taking on high levels of responsibility, making decisions quickly and moving to execute," Sevalia said.
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