Staff Engineer, Product Applications (ATE/Power)

Description:

This position is for staff product applications engineer. The position supports semiconductor products, developed in Colorado Springs, CO, developed for the Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) market.  Products in this strategy include Device Power Supplies (DPS) and integrated high speed and precision signal chains targeted towards ATE applications. The product applications engineer will be responsible for ATE products from concept and definition through production, release, and sustaining.  The ideal candidate is a self-motivated individual and fast learner with strong technical, analytical and communication skills. The candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with an experienced development team.  

Responsibilities:

• Lead the customer engagement activities associated with the development of ATE product concepts including new product definition. Work closely with customers and ADI Marketing/Design/Field Applications/Market Segment communities to define successful new products for this portfolio.

• Be responsible for ATE Device Power Supply design-in successes for assigned released products and products under development. Manage relationships with customers during their design-in phase with a power supply solution mind set. This will involve gaining an understanding of the customer's application and providing innovative, practical, and timely solutions to customer challenges.

• Analysis of product evaluation and reliability test data.

• Designing and executing evaluation test methods to characterize and measure new silicon performance over customer use case and environmental conditions, interpreting the measurement data, identifying silicon issues and debugging to root cause.

• Preparing evaluation hardware and diagnostic programs, designing test fixtures, and completing specifications and procedures for new products.

• Contribute to ATE product datasheets

• Creation and production of design-in tools that reinforce a product’s customer value proposition. These include but are not limited to: demonstration systems, on-line tools and technical literature (user guides, application notes, Circuits from The Lab reference designs, design notes, technical seminars and FAQs).

• Develop and participate in online and in person training activities for customers, field application engineers, sales engineers and distributors.

• Develop system level power supply understanding in ATE systems.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or an equivalent professional qualification with at least 5-10 years’ experience. Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering is preferred. 

• The ideal candidate would have experience in switching DC/DC converters, analog circuits, semiconductor IC processes, and system engineering is also beneficial.

• A solid understanding of loop compensation (poles, zeros, BW, phase margin, etc.) is a plus.

• Communication with our customers and our sales/field applications engineers requires an outgoing personality with a pleasant and professional manner. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, are a key requirement.

• Experience with ATE products including pin drivers, comparators, parametric measurement units (PPMU) and device power supplies (DPS) from a design or a usage perspective is desirable but not required.

• PCB schematic entry and layout design experience is required preferably in Cadence ALLEGRO

• Experience using SPICE circuit simulators including LTSPICE would be an advantage. 

• Familiarity with commonly used electronic test equipment is important, e.g. Oscilloscopes and Frequency Signal Generators, Vector Network Analysers and Spectrum Analysers

• Experience needed with high level software languages.  Examples include LabVIEW, C# or C, Python and Matlab.

• As the job requires constant communication with customers, it will therefore necessitate travel within the US and occasionally Europe and Asia.