Pixel Qi is hiring!

Join Pixel Qi's rapid growth. We are the first firm to adopt a high-volume, ASIC-like approach to display design - functioning like a fabless chip firm, designing products that are made by others, to our exacting specifications. We have already been successful with this approach, in inventing and developing the novel screen for the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop's sunlight-readable, dual mode LC screen.

We are looking for creative, energetic individuals to join our industry-leading team - in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Taipei.

Summary of Open Positions

1. Executive Vice President Pixel Qi Taiwan (Taipei)
2. Vice President of Display Engineering (Taipei or San Francisco)

See detailed job description(s) below.  If interested please submit cover letter and resume to Casey Hsu (casey@pixelqi.com)

1. Executive Vice President, Pixel Qi Taiwan

Overall job role: Full oversight of Pixel Qi’s operations, staff, customer and partner relationships in Taiwan, working closely with CEO and COO of PQ US as core management team, full participation in setting direction of overall firm.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Lead contract relationships and negotiations with suppliers

• Provide senior executive level support on large customer negotiations

• Oversee finance and banking for PQ TW

• Direct PQ corporate and legal affairs in Taiwan

• Oversee logistics of product flow, delivery, customer support, PQ support staffs, etc.

Frequent travel within Asia (customers and supply chain) and North America (coordination with PQ US); occasional travel elsewhere. Much work outside normal office hours: frequent conference calls for global reach, across many time zones, weekends, etc.

Experience required:

• Excellent English and Chinese (Mandarin, Taiwanese)

• 5+ years at executive level within Display and / or computer ODM or brand industries or equivalent; preference for strength in Liquid Crystal Display industry

• Some electrical engineering, optics, physics or equivalent educational background

• Exceptional strengths in team leadership

• Strongly preferred: startup or small company experience

Compensation:

• Salary fully commensurate with experience

• Stock options plan – generous, Silicon Valley-style executive-level stock options plan

2. Vice President for Display Engineering

specific role and critical responsibilities will include:

• Take a lead role in assuring the visual quality of the 3Qi screens, leading the Pixel Qi engineering team in the US and Taiwan, and taking a leadership role also in overseeing the key optical and display engineering attributes with our Asian fab partners, taking a major role in overall Pixel Qi management, and taking a key role in assuring the growth of the partnerships with key partners.

• Strengthening the management of the Pixel Qi engineering and project management teams and work

Activities include:

• Providing specific guidance and management oversight to others of the Pixel Qi engineering and project management team.

• Contributing to (or driving and leading) engineering project management, and related strategy, and providing analyzed feedback from the technical partners as recommended courses of action for Pixel Qi.

• Take leadership role in supporting customers and prospects in their display evaluation engineering work, and in considering their concerns as driving engineering changes, leading the engineering support of sales / customer engineering.

• Supporting development of accurate and timely product and project cost projections, cost / performance tradeoffs, etc.

• Supporting development of short-term product development options and a longer-term technical roadmap.

• Develop IP, through patentable innovations and through other ‘know-how’, and assist in developing an IP strategy.

As a senior member of PQ staff, your responsibilities will include

• Full participation with the PQ management team in overall decision making, with specific emphasis on engineering, operations and strategy.

• Support and collaboration in creation of an evolving compensation program for the engineering side of Pixel Qi

• Aiding and supporting in the operations of Pixel Qi particularly as it helps direct toward meeting customer requirements

• Aiding in the overall direction of PQ, including consideration of new products and new directions, alliances, etc.

• Joining in thinking about the larger challenge and opportunity for display-centric designs, markets and opportunities – as well as solutions that can deliver benefit to the world’s poorest, in the context of good business sense for PQ.

Frequent travel is required to and through the US and to and through Taiwan and Asia.  50% time or more during the first year, with less travel necessarily required in subsequent years. 

Summary of Open Positions

* Executive Vice President (Taipei)

* Vice President of Display Engineering (Taipei or San Francisco)

 See detailed job descriptions below.