Careers
Holt Integrated Circuits provides top compensation and a rewarding work environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and great benefits.
Anyone interested in employment with Holt should send a resume to hr@holtic.com.
The following positions are currently under consideration:
Quality Systems Lead
Position Summary:
Holt Integrated Circuits, a leading supplier of high-reliability semiconductor solutions for the aerospace industry, is seeking to fill a newly created Quality Systems Lead role to support and improve its AS9100-certified Quality Management System (QMS).
Reporting to the Director of Quality, this hands-on role is responsible for QMS compliance, audit management, process improvement, and quality system maintenance. The Quality Systems Lead ensures compliance with AS9100D, ISO 9001, customer, and regulatory requirements while driving continuous improvement and audit readiness.
This individual contributor role has no direct reports and works closely with the Quality Group Lead, Quality team, and cross-functional stakeholders to support quality objectives and organizational compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead internal audits and support external certification, customer, and regulatory audits.
- Maintain compliance with AS9100, customer requirements, and applicable quality standards.
- Manage CAPA activities, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and effectiveness verification.
- Analyze quality data and trends to drive continuous improvement and prevent recurring issues.
- Maintain QMS documentation, records, document control, and configuration management processes.
- Support customer quality inquiries, audits, and corrective action responses.
- Deliver AS9100 and quality system training and promote quality awareness throughout the organization.
- Foster a culture of compliance, risk-based thinking, and continuous improvement.
- Monitor quality metrics and report QMS performance to leadership.
- Support supplier quality activities and outsourced manufacturing partners.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of quality systems experience in aerospace, semiconductor, electronics, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
- Working knowledge of AS9100D and ISO 9001.
- Experience with audits, CAPA, and quality system compliance.
- ERP system experience.
- Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
- Aerospace, avionics, or semiconductor manufacturing experience.
- AS9100 Lead Auditor, CQA, CQE, or related certification.
- Experience with supplier quality and continuous improvement.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times.
Benefits include:
- Health, Dental and Vision: 100% paid for Employee, 50% paid for dependents.
- Monthly Profit Sharing Bonus
- Annual Profit Sharing contribution to 401k account
- Holiday Pay (Approximately 15 days a year including the holiday shutdown)
- Vacation Pay- 13 days (0-5 years), 16.25 days (5-10) and 19.5 days (10+ years).
- Vacation Balance Max: 186 hours, vacation paid out weekly if capped
- Sick Pay- 52 hours a year, not lost at year end. Balance paid out if capped.
- Sick Balance Max: 80 hours
- 401K Plan and Employer Matching (eligibility after 3 months)
- Employer Match: 1st 3% matched 100%, next 2% matched 50% (Total 4%)
- FSA Plan, Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Salary: depending on experience
Test Engineer - Mixed Signal Avionics ICs
Position Summary:
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Test Engineer to join our team, focusing on high-performance mixed-signal semiconductor products for avionics applications. The ideal candidate will play a key role in driving test development, product qualification, and continuous improvement across the product lifecycle. This position involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful deployment of test solutions and the delivery of high-quality products. The Test Engineer reports directly to the Test Operations Manager and is responsible and accountable for Test Engineering activities.
Responsibilities:
- Transition of Test Solutions: Lead the transition of test solutions from existing legacy test platforms to newer, more versatile systems, ensuring smooth integration and improved test coverage and efficiency.
- Test Solution Design & Implementation: Develop and implement high-speed test solutions at both package and wafer levels. This includes both hardware and software development.
- Lead Test Strategy Development: Collaborate with design teams to drive analog and digital Design for Test (DFT) methodologies into new product designs, ensuring testability and manufacturability.
- Production Test Analysis: Review and analyze production test times and test yields to identify opportunities for product and test efficiency improvements, ensuring optimal throughput and performance.
- Capital Planning Assistance: Assist in the planning of long-term capital acquisition strategies for test equipment and systems, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth and technology roadmap.
- Innovative Test Methodologies: Identify and explore new and innovative test methodologies that can improve testing accuracy, speed, and cost-efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product engineering, design, and validation teams to assess and evaluate new designs, providing valuable feedback from ATE test results to improve the product’s test coverage and overall robustness.
- Reliability & Qualification Testing: Develop and execute reliability screening solutions to evaluate device performance under life testing conditions, contributing to comprehensive product qualification.
- Characterization & Robustness: Partner with product engineering to complete ATE characterization, ensuring the design integrity and test solutions align with the intended product lifecycle and mission-critical performance standards.
- Test Data Analysis & Reporting: Provide concise, accurate, and timely reports and updates on test results, presenting findings clearly and ensuring actionable insights are communicated to relevant teams.
- Collaborative Partnerships: Develop and maintain strong relationships across all functions, including design, product, characterization, validation, applications, and marketing teams, to ensure effective and efficient collaboration.
- Customer Support Assistance: Provide assistance with customer support issues, addressing any test-related concerns or questions that may arise during production or product use.
- Project Management: Manage multiple projects in parallel, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining high-quality standards.
- Adherence to Quality Standards: Deliver test results in strict compliance with quality management standards and best practices, ensuring product reliability and performance.
Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in semiconductor test engineering, with a focus on mixed-signal or avionics products.
- Extensive hands-on experience with ATE platforms, (i.e. LabView, ATEasy, Cohu/Unisom, Linux systems using C, C++ or similar).
- Strong knowledge of test development for both analog and digital ICs.
- Experience in high-speed test solutions, test program development, and debugging.
- Experience with board level analog/mixed-signal and digital PCB design and layout.
- Familiarity with reliability testing, life-cycle qualification, and yield improvement methodologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex data to drive decision-making.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to various stakeholders.
- Proven track record of working collaboratively in cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience in the avionics industry or similar high-reliability applications is a plus.

