Careers at Micro Magic, Inc.

Employment Candidates

For full-time employment, we will consider candidates with advanced degrees in EE and CS.

We will also consider candidates working on their advanced degrees for part-time positions.

Our area of emphasis is in VLSI chip design (circuits, logic, and some architecture, along with some back-end skills). Those with a desire and aptitude for writing CAD tools are a big plus.

Our ideal candidate is one who has a strong background in full-custom microprocessor design.

Highly motivated, bright, personable team players possessing some of the above skills and an expectation for learning new ones are strongly encouraged to apply.

Micro Magic, Inc. is a start-up company. We build, use and sell our own high-end CAD tools. Our installed base is growing and we enjoy a positive cash flow. Since we are entirely self-funded (no VC money) we offer generous stock options.

We are founded by engineers and believe that those who help build the company should reap the rewards. Most of our staff have Ph.D.'s from Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT along with several years of experience in either the high-speed VLSI or EDA industries

If interested, contact "info" @ micromagic.com

The people here are smart, and lots of fun to work with. We hope you can join us.

Founder: Mark Santoro

Mark Santoro, PhD

Co-Founder and President
PhD Stanford 1990
Invented 4:2 trees
Born Florida 1957
He holds 9 patents and loves his dogs.
After working for such companies as Vector General, Weitek, Apple Computer & Sun Microsystems Dr. Santoro cofounded MMI in Jan 1995, where he served as President & CEO.
Dr Santoro invented 4:2 trees as part of his PhD dissertation which are used in most modern multiplier architectures.

Founder: Lee Tavrow

Lee Tavrow, PhD

Co-Founder and Chief Engineer
PhD MIT 1991
Born California 1964
He holds 13 patents, but still seems lucky.
After working at Digital Equipment Corporation & Sun Microsystems, Dr. Tavrow cofounded Micro Magic as Vice President and chief engineer.

A Sample of MMI Successes

• Ternary CAM with Embedded Processor
• Network Processor
• VoIP Processor
• Embedded High Speed SRAM
• Custom Register File
• Low Power Memory
• 26-Million-Transistor Processor.

How We Work

Engineers from Micro Magic meet with your engineers and management, to discuss the best solution to the problem or problems in the chip design. Some issues are smaller, and more easily remedied; some are larger and will require more involvement. Micro Magic's intention is to provide the most efficient solution utilizing your current design flow and our development tools. Our engineers can either do the work off-site, in house, or provide the MMI tool(s) and advice for a plug-n-play augmentation to your existing flow.

Points of Interest

Trying to achieve the performance we needed from commercially-available tools just wasn't working. Over the course of several years, Micro Magic's engineers wound up writing their own tools to help get chips out. Our design services history is unmatched for making tapeout on time. Of course, our clients began to notice that MMI engineers were more efficient, more productive, and started asking about the tools. We responded by making them available to other engineers,and in 1995 the first versions of MAX and SUE were ready for the public..

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