Senior Applications Engineer

Elevate Semiconductor•San Diego, CA

14h

About The Position

ElevATE Semiconductor designs low-power, high-density ICs for Automated Test Equipment (ATE), including integrated pin electronics. Applications Engineering connects customers with Design, Product, and Quality engineers. The team creates customer guides, builds evaluation modules (EVMs) and evaluation software, and leads technical debugging when customer systems encounter problems. The Senior Applications Engineer takes customer issues or new EVMs from start to finish with limited hand-holding. The role involves substantial laboratory work, ownership of product documentation, and serving as a primary technical contact for customers. The engineer investigates complex customer and system-level issues, supports products from concept through production release, and assists the sales team with product recommendations and customer visits. Occasional travel may be required as business needs dictate.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
3–7 years of professional experience in applications, test, product, or systems engineering on semiconductor products.
Extensive experience with bench equipment, including oscilloscopes, SMUs, power supplies, AWGs, and probing techniques, and the ability to recognize when a test setup is causing a problem.
Ability to explain a problem found and fixed at the bench.
Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits.
Clear communication skills and ability to explain technical findings to both engineers and managers.
Willingness and ability to travel occasionally as business needs require.

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 use of 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

Lead complex customer and system-level investigations by defining problems, reproducing them in the lab, driving root-cause analysis with Design, Product, and Quality Engineering, and closing the loop with customers.
Generate technical documentation for ElevATE products, including datasheets, product guides, application notes, and other materials supporting integration into customer systems.
Interface with internal engineering teams to help bring new products from initial concept through production release.
Perform bench testing and analysis to support customer inquiries and troubleshooting.
Reproduce customer observations and provide technical guidance on using ElevATE parts.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis with the operations team.
Coordinate with the sales team throughout the sales process, including product recommendations for new customer designs and on-site customer visits to promote ElevATE IC products.
Own documentation for supported products and serve as the customer's go-to technical contact.