Director, MEMS Engineering

Job Summary

As a Director of MEMS Engineering, you will own and drive development of cutting-edge MEMS for next generation of SiTime precision timing products during a pivotal growth phase of the Company. This role combines strategic leadership of a world-class team with tactical hands-on execution of projects on a corporate roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Lead a world-class team of MEMS engineers and deliver solutions to toughest MEMS timing problems.
• Scale your team and build the culture of innovation and execution excellence through coaching, managing career advancements, and hiring new employees.
• Contribute technical ideas for SiTime’s technical roadmap, by working with Marketing and Executive teams in defining next-generation products based on new technologies.
• Lead development of new MEMS technologies, enhance performance or manufacturability of existing devices, improve measurement or simulation infrastructure, both through team effort and personal technical contributions.
• Interface with local and overseas vendors, establish new partnerships favorable to SiTime business.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Operations, and Program Management to deliver scalable, predictable development execution.
• Adapt to evolving business needs and lead critical initiatives as required.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent
• 10+ years of industry experience in MEMS or specialty sensor development; 15+ years is preferred.
• Experience with MEMS timing is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading and delivering complex MEMS development programs.
• Pioneered record of building and leading high-performance engineering teams of 5+ engineers.
• Hands-on technical credibility across MEMS design, fabrication, characterization, and modeling.
• Strong technical and business judgment with the ability to innovate, design experiments, and interpret complex data.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of programming languages, circuits, metrology equipment, and methods.
• Passion for execution excellence, ownership, delivering exceptional results.

Compensation

• Coverage of a comprehensive and highly competitive compensation package, including base salary, quarterly bonus tied to innovation goals, and equity grants.
• The annual base salary range for this role is $178,800.00 – $255,750.00.

About SiTime

SiTime is the Precision Timing company. Timing is the heartbeat of all electronics, ensuring performance, resilience and scalability. For decades, quartz devices, non-silicon technology, have kept systems in sync, but they struggle in harsher, more demanding environments. MEMS-based Precision Timing delivers greater accuracy, smaller size and resilience. Today, MEMS timing powers over 400 applications, including high-growth ones in AI datacenters, automated driving, industrial and humanoid robots, wearables and IoT. Our semiconductor MEMS programmable solutions offer a rich feature set that enables customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, smaller size, lower power, and better reliability. With more than 4 billion devices shipped, SiTime is changing the timing industry. For more information, visit: www.sitime.com.