Applications Engineer

Elevate Semiconductor•San Diego, CA

4d•$85,000 - $100,000

About The Position

ElevATE Semiconductor designs low-power, high-density ICs for Automated Test Equipment (ATE), including integrated pin electronics. Applications Engineering works between customers and the Design, Product, and Quality Engineering teams. The role involves creating customer-facing technical materials, building evaluation boards and software, and leading technical debugging when customer systems encounter problems. This early-career position is suited to someone who enjoys laboratory work and wants to develop strong hands-on engineering skills. Initial work includes bench measurements, EVM support, and documentation alongside senior engineers, with customer issues added as product knowledge grows. The position involves a mix of laboratory testing and communicating findings to people who need to act on them.

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, serious personal project, 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 supporting customer integration.
Support customer and system-level debugging by defining problems, reproducing them in the lab, driving root-cause investigations 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 laboratory setups.
Respond to customer and internal questions by collecting details, reproducing issues, and drafting reports of findings.
Learn schematic review and system troubleshooting on real customer designs with mentoring.
Take ownership of smaller support issues and documentation tasks as experience grows.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis in conjunction 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.