Applications Engineer

Elevate Semiconductor•San Diego, CA

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About The Position

ElevATE Semiconductor designs low-power, high-density ICs for Automated Test Equipment (ATE), including integrated pin electronics. Applications Engineering bridges customers and the Design, Product, and Quality Engineering teams. The role creates customer-facing guides, builds evaluation modules (EVMs) and software, and leads technical debugging when customers encounter system issues. Work includes hands-on lab time and explaining findings clearly to customers and colleagues. This early-career role begins with bench measurements, EVM support, and documentation alongside senior engineers. As product knowledge grows, the engineer takes on customer issues and increasing ownership of support tasks.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or be graduating soon.
0–2 years of professional experience in applications, test, product, or systems engineering on semiconductor products.
Extensive experience with bench equipment, including oscilloscopes, SMUs, power supplies, and AWGs, gained through an internship, co-op, research, or a serious personal or senior-design project.
Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits.

Nice To Haves

Experience in semiconductor test, ATE, measurement equipment, or high-performance instrumentation.
Experience in analog or mixed-signal design, or transistor-level debugging.
Exposure to PCB design review and bring-up, or experience using tools such as Altium or Allegro.
Familiarity with SPICE simulation tools such as LTspice or PSpice.
Experience using programming languages or tools for test automation and data analysis, such as Python, C, JMP, or Excel.

Responsibilities

Generate technical documentation for Elevate products, including datasheets, product guides, application notes, and other materials that support integration into customer systems.
Support customer and system-level debugging by defining problems, reproducing them in the lab, driving root-cause analysis with Design, Product, and Quality Engineering, and closing the loop with customers.
Perform bench testing and analysis to support customer inquiries and troubleshoot issues.
Reproduce customer observations and provide technical guidance on using Elevate parts.
Build, bring up, and maintain EVMs and lab setups.
Respond to customer and internal questions by collecting details, reproducing issues, and drafting reports on findings.
Learn schematic review and system troubleshooting on customer designs with mentoring.
Take ownership of smaller support issues and documentation tasks as product knowledge grows.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis with the operations team.
Support sales activities by assisting with product recommendations for new customer designs and participating in on-site customer visits to promote Elevate IC products.