# (Senior) Applications Engineer

Company Description Vertical Semiconductor, a venture-backed MIT spin-out, is leading the development of vertical gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors to build the foundational power layer for the next generation of compute and AI. Role Overview We’re hiring a (Senior) Applications Engineer to help customers design in next-generation vertical GaN power devices (100 V - 2300 V) and turn device performance into system-level wins. This is a hands-on role: you’ll build and test power converter hardware, run simulations, characterize fast-switching wide bandgap devices on the bench and support customers directly. You’ll work closely with our Principal Applications Engineer and Device Engineering team, with growing ownership of customer engagements, evaluation hardware and technical content as you ramp up. Key Responsibilities Customer design-in support Support customer design-in activity: simulations, bench testing, troubleshooting and performance optimization. Translate customer specifications into device and circuit requirements, working alongside senior applications staff on strategic accounts. Take technical ownership of selected customer engagements; present results and rec

- **Id**: 3783047
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertical-semiconductor-senior-applications-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Somerville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T22:57:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:43:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4334
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Supplies & Power Electronics, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 686229
- **Name**: Vertical Semiconductor
- **Domain**: verticalsemi.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/verticalsemi>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Altium Designer** — Optional: no
- **Eagle** — Optional: no
- **OrCAD** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T01:56:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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