Product Applications Engineer

Analog Devices•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Analog Devices is seeking a recent graduate to join its Precision Signal Chain Applications Engineering team. The team develops precision analog front-end solutions for instrumentation, industrial, data center, automotive, healthcare, communications, and consumer applications. The role focuses on making ADI products and signal chains easier for customers to adopt by providing application knowledge and acting as a customer advocate during product development and design-in activities. The engineer will collaborate with marketing, design, test and evaluation, field applications, and market-segment colleagues to develop products, support customers, and bring products to market. The role includes helping customers understand and use released products, resolving application issues, developing design-in tools, creating technical content, and delivering training to field teams, distributors, and customers. The position is primarily hardware-based and requires ongoing customer communication and travel within Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Requirements

Recent graduate with a Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or an equivalent professional qualification.
Core electronics fundamentals in both analog and digital domains.
Outgoing, pleasant, professional, and self-driven manner when communicating with customers and sales and field applications engineers.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work effectively in product development and applications teams.
Willingness to travel within Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Nice To Haves

Experience with embedded microcontrollers.
Experience creating data acquisition subsystems.
Software proficiency for system understanding and design-in tool development; Python, C, LabVIEW, and C# are beneficial.
Ability and interest in solving complex problems, debugging systems, and replicating or delivering solutions on hardware and software benches.

Responsibilities

Drive positive customer engagement in the development of new products.
Contribute to developing innovative products that solve difficult problems and are easy for customers to use.
Work with multidisciplinary teams, including Marketing, Design, Test & Evaluation, and Field Applications/Market Segment, to engage with customers and deliver solutions.
Participate in design-in efforts for assigned released products and provide customer design-in support.
Understand customer needs and applications, and develop practical, timely solutions to customer issues.
Work with field colleagues or directly with customers to resolve issues and communicate solutions clearly.
Create tools that help customers design in ADI products more quickly and easily.
Act as the customer advocate within cross-discipline product development teams and contribute to evidence-based decisions.
Create technical media such as datasheets, application notes, Circuits from The Lab content, videos, technical seminars and webinars, and trade press articles.
Explain product differentiation and value through technical media.
Create and deliver training materials for Field Application Engineers, Sales Engineers, distributors, and customers, both on-site and through webinars.
Develop system-level understanding in relevant application segments, understand customer system issues, and contribute to application-segment strategies.
Travel to communicate with customers in Europe, the United States, and Asia.