Applications Engineer

Be part of a dynamic Applications Engineering team that is passionate about bringing cutting edge Power and Mixed-Signal Products to market! You will play a fundamental role in bringing to market next-generation devices for our growing power and battery management business by ensuring that our customers can easily and effectively integrate our devices into their end products. Are you open to this exciting challenge? We invite you to take part in Cirrus Logic’s “rocking” culture!

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct engineering support for Cirrus Logic customers and field personnel
• Develop reference designs and demonstration platforms
• Develop application notes, white papers, demo-board, and reference-design manuals
• Implement customer-application focused data collection and circuit analysis
• Debug analog and digital silicon issues
• Collaborate and communicate closely with tier-1 customers, marketing and internal engineering teams to understand requirements and use cases and contribute to next-generation product definition
• Autonomously manage tasks and priorities, including communicating project status cross-functionally
• Travel approximately 2 weeks per year, domestically and abroad

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• BSEE with 2+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry or MSEE
• Experience with integrated DC-to-DC switching buck and/or boost converters, battery chargers and mixed-signal circuits for portable or power electronic products
• Demonstrated aptitude in system understanding of various industry interface standards such as I2C, SPI, USB, UART, I2S, SPMI
• Experience in component selection, schematic entry and knowledge of PCB layout design
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as MATLAB, LabVIEW, Python or similar
• Extensive hands-on experience in lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, audio analyzers, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers
• Highly dynamic and driven personality with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work across functional groups and organizations

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience with embedded C/C++ programming
• Self-motivated with excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail are highly valued as you will need to understand silicon, board and software interactions