Xilinx Seeks to Hire 50 Engineers in Asia

Xilinx Asia Pacific (XAP) is looking to hire 50 engineers in Singapore, in line with the company’s ramp up in volume production of its Virtex 6 and Spartan 6 series FPGAs, according to Vincent Tong, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Quality and New Product Introductions, Xilinx. Last January, UMC has fully qualified the Virtex-6 FPGA family on the foundry's high-performance 40nm logic process. The following month, the Spartan-6 FPGA family has attained full production qualification on Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd’s 45nm process.

“We are launching Virtex 6 and Spartan 6 series into full production now, on 45/40nm, and the initial volume is happening in this region. That’s why we have to expand to support the steep ramp up in production,” says Tong during an interview with EDN Asia.

“We want to hire engineers that really want to be innovative, and enjoy leading edge technology. Leading edge technology, by definition, comes with a lot of technical problems, a lot of technical challenges. So those engineers have to love to solve problems; they should be challenged by new problems that come up every day while developing products. And they need to be enjoying doing that. We need their innovation to help provide those solutions to our customers,” adds Tong.

At present, the company has about 100 engineers working in its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. Tong says that the company hopes to attract both experienced and college graduates. “We want to hire the best graduates, the top students, who understand Xilinx products, who are excited about joining a company that drives technology. We value new perspectives, some crazy ideas that could turn into brilliant solutions for certain customers, we always value that. The day we stop hiring new college graduates is the day the company will become stale. We also want to attract many experienced engineers who will bring in a wealth of knowledge in semiconductor testing, will continue to do quality improvement, and make sure that things do not go wrong in the supply chain—that takes a lot of engineering experience,” says Tong.

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Editor’s note: The complete article will be published in the October issue of EDN Asia.