Design Application Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +3 more locations.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to address design, application, technology-platform, and design-enablement challenges, concentrating on PMIC applications.

• Act as a technical advocate for clients, converting intricate customer and engineering requirements into feasible design and implementation strategies.

• Assess and verify proposed solutions against customer specifications, technical goals, and implementation necessities.

• Detect and rectify technical and enablement deficiencies impacting customer designs using GF technologies and methodologies.

• Facilitate technical solutions across PDK, modeling, IP, EDA, reliability, product engineering, quality, sales, and additional teams.

• Oversee technical scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, and recovery plans for assigned customer solutions, projects, and programs.

• Offer technical guidance and customer support through case resolution, design evaluations, training, documentation, and mentoring.

• Represent Application Engineering in customer interactions and cross-functional technical discussions.

• Create and sustain application notes, troubleshooting guidelines, reference flows, operational runbooks, and reusable technical assets.

• Propel Application Engineering forward through ongoing enhancement, technical leadership, knowledge sharing, automation, and better engineering standards and supportability.

• Contribute to GF continuous improvement initiatives.

• Execute activities safely while complying with Compliance, Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with over 5 years of pertinent experience, Master’s degree with more than 3 years of relevant experience, or PhD with at least 2 years of applicable experience.

• Familiarity with Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC) technology and circuit design development through tape-out, including battery chargers, DC-DC converters, LDOs, power switches, or related applications.

• Proven expertise in at least one relevant technical field and proficiency in a secondary area, such as IC design, EDA tools and methodologies, semiconductor technology applications, or design enablement.

• Knowledgeable about semiconductor design-enablement components and interfaces, including PDKs, device models, IP, EDA tools, reliability requirements, and product engineering.

• Capacity to comprehend and advocate for customer needs, translate complex requirements into actionable design or implementation solutions, and assess proposed solutions against technical objectives and implementation limitations.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot technical and methodological issues, investigate root causes, and tackle complex or recurring problems.

• Experience in collaborating with clients and cross-functional teams to coordinate technical efforts, resolve challenges, and represent Application Engineering.

• Ability to autonomously manage technical tasks and projects, encompassing deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, and customer follow-up.

• Competency in leading technical discussions with customers or partners and providing guidance via technical case support, design assessments, training, and documentation.

• Excellent technical writing, presentation, and communication skills.

• Proven professional accountability, commitment to continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing, with the ability to mentor or train less-experienced engineers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Retirement savings plans with employer matching.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and supportive work environment.