Applications Engineer

This position is part of the Applications Engineering team that is focused on bringing leading edge Mixed Signal Audio, Industrial and Automotive devices to market. You will play a fundamental role in bringing to market next-generation devices for Cirrus’ growing mixed signal business and ensuring that our customers can easily and effectively integrate our devices into their end products.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct engineering support for Cirrus Logic customers and field personnel across the full lifecycle of a product
• Lead customer design-in activities, including system bring-up, debugging, and production issue resolution
• Lead root-cause analysis of complex system-level customer issues across hardware, firmware, and silicon
• Develop application notes, white papers, demo-board, and reference-design manuals
• Develop demonstration platforms and reference designs, using PCB schematic tools and working with layout engineers
• Develop firmware and RTL modules for customer reference and demonstration
• Develop advanced Python code that effectively demonstrates the operation and capabilities of our products
• Execute customer-application focused data collection and circuit analysis
• Contribute to next-generation mixed-signal product definition. Collaborate and communicate closely with IC Design engineers, Systems engineers and Validation engineers to understand and define design requirements and customer use cases. Operate with high autonomy in managing tasks and priorities, including communicating project status cross functionally
• Travel approximately 2 weeks per year, domestically and abroad to support customer bring-up, winning designs, and onsite debugging

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical / Electronics Engineering and experience in the semiconductor industry
• Demonstrate aptitude in system understanding of various industry interface standards such as I2C, SPI, USB, UART, I2S and high speed control/data bus examples
• Experience in component selection, schematic entry and knowledge of PCB layout design
• Proficiency in scripting/programming language such as Verilog, C, Python, MATLAB or similar
• Proficiency in version control methods and version control systems such as Git
• Solid hands-on experience in lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, audio analyzers, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Mixed-signal hardware and audio-related backgrounds are strongly preferred