Spectrum Design Services

The best talent, the best technology, the best processes = The best designs

APPRENTICESHIPS

In partnership with the University of South Wales, the Cadence Design Center (Wales) employs and trains people straight out of school for a career in semiconductor design. You will earn while you learn from a world leader in advanced engineering. You will earn a valuable degree, you will build world class experience. We ask only two things of you. We look for two key attributes from our apprentices. That you have the aptitude to learn and the attitude to succeed. You don't have to come to us with straight A's. But you do need to be enthusiastic and hard working.

APPRENTICE PATHS AT CADENCE

Chip

A semiconductor designer works in the sub-micron domain. Think about electrical connections hundreds of times thinner than a human hair that enable electrical signals that travel millions of times faster than signals in the brain. Semiconductors have millions of connections and circuits assembled in to devices small than your smallest finger nail.  Our designers tame these challenges to create the products of tomorrow.

Degree
board

A PCB designers has the task of building the electrical plumbing between devices by assembling chips and other components on to a physical substrate. The substrate may be a "traditional" circuit board or it could be a flexible media. PCB designers have been around for many decades, but each new generation of semiconductor means that the PCB designer has to learn new skills for new electrical, thermal and optical properties.

Degree
package

Package designers bring together the electronic, the pcb and the physical device in to a complete product. Apprentices learn how to tame the complex interactions between multiple physics such as radio frequency, thermal, structural and others. Sometimes the chip or the pcb is a structural component, sometimes the environment they operate in is very hostile - such as in a satellite. Every job is unique and challenging.

Degree

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

team1
SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGNER
team2
PCB DESIGNER
team3
PROGRAM MANAGER