Senior Staff Applications Engineer
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 Design, Product, and Quality engineers by creating customer guides, building evaluation boards and software, and leading technical debugging. The role includes hands-on lab work and communicating findings to people who need to act on them. This experienced engineer will bring deep product and ATE knowledge to the team, lead challenging customer escalations, and collaborate across functions to develop solutions. The position involves complex technical investigations, bench testing, product documentation, support for product development and release, customer and sales support, and analysis of competitive products.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ 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 identify when the measurement setup is causing a problem.
- Strong analog and mixed-signal circuit understanding, including transistor-level behavior when required for debugging.
- A track record of leading ambiguous, multi-variable engineering investigations to a defensible conclusion.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical findings to both engineers and managers.
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.
- Experience across the silicon lifecycle, from validation, characterization, and design verification through quality and mass-production ramp.
- Exposure to PCB design review and bring-up or 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 customer system integration.
- 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.
- Analyze the competitive landscape and identify differentiation for Elevate IC products.
- Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis with the operations team.
- Coordinate with the sales team throughout the sales process.
- Assist with product recommendations for new customer designs.
- Assist with on-site customer visits to promote Elevate IC products.
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for incentive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
