Staff Applications Engineer – Power

About the role

Analog Devices is hiring a Staff Power Applications Engineer in San Jose, CA, to support its IVR (Empower) portfolio during final product development and customer design-in. The engineer acts as a trusted consultant for product evaluation, simulation, design-in and bring-up of datacenter power solutions, working with product and design teams, sales and field applications engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Support solutions from product evaluation and design-in through system bring-up and production readiness, focusing on vertical power delivery and integrated voltage regulators.
• Create customer-ready design collateral: reference designs, schematics, PCB layouts, stack-up recommendations, simulation models and system-level performance models.
• Build demonstration platforms and custom board-level power solutions for high-power point-of-load applications supporting SoCs, processors and xPUs.
• Collaborate with FAEs to turn customer requirements into complete power-system proposals meeting electrical, thermal, stability and performance targets.
• Analyze power delivery networks, boards and packages with PDN, power-integrity and FEM/CAD extraction tools.
• Run circuit and system simulations (e.g. SIMPLIS) and automate validation with Python.
• Support prototype evaluation, board bring-up, qualification and root-cause analysis in customer and ADI labs.
• Perform hands-on measurements with oscilloscopes, Bode plotters and load emulators, and correlate results with simulation models.
• Provide technical guidance and reusable tools so sales and FAEs can present and deploy ADI datacenter power solutions.

Required profile

• BSEE required; MSEE in power electronics preferred.
• 5 years of experience in power applications engineering, validating products and full power-system PCB designs.
• 3 years designing DC-DC converters, including component selection and simulation/lab analysis for PMICs, multiphase buck converters for low-voltage, high-current applications.
• Experience with laboratory equipment and automated measurements for board bring-up and characterization.
• Experience in PCB design, layout and optimization (Cadence Allegro preferred).
• Experience with circuit simulation tools such as SPICE, SIMPLIS and MATLAB, correlated with lab measurements.
• Experience with PDN and power-integrity analysis using tools such as Pathways or Sigrity.

Required skills

• Knowledge of Python for automated testing and prototyping.
• SPICE, SIMPLIS, MATLAB, Cadence Allegro, Pathways or Sigrity.

What we offer

• Expected wage range of $150,978 to $218,624 for a new hire, with possible variation.
• Discretionary performance-based bonus.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays and sick time.
• 10% travel requirement, first shift, days.