Staff Field Applications Engineer – Power

About the role

Analog Devices is hiring a Staff Power Field Applications Engineer in San Jose, CA, to support its IVR (Empower) portfolio customer designs from start to finish. The FAE acts as a trusted advisor for system-level evaluation, simulation, design-in and bring-up of Analog Devices datacenter solutions, combining customer-facing technical leadership with hands-on engineering support across the full design cycle.

Key responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements into robust power solutions and guide implementation and validation
• Engage customers onsite and virtually to gather requirements, present technical proposals and act as advisor through evaluation, design-in, bring-up, qualification and production readiness
• Develop and maintain design collateral such as specifications, simulation models, schematics and layout guidance
• Evaluate prototypes, troubleshoot design issues and run system tests in customer and ADI labs with oscilloscopes, Bode plotters and load emulators
• Analyze power delivery networks and power integrity, and develop board-level reference designs and custom solutions for high-power point-of-load applications including SoCs, processors and xPUs
• Manage multiple customer engagements, coordinate activities to customer schedules and travel as needed

Required profile

• BSEE required; MSEE in power electronics preferred
• 5 years of experience in Power Field Applications Engineering with Tier-1 customers
• 3 years designing DC-DC converters, including PMICs and multiphase buck converters for low-voltage, high-current applications
• Experience with automated measurements and characterization of customer boards
• Required travel of about 10% of the time; first shift, days

Required skills

• PCB design, layout and optimization (Cadence Allegro preferred)
• Circuit simulation tools such as SPICE, SIMPLIS, MATLAB and correlation with lab measurements
• PDN and power integrity analysis with SI/PI tools such as Pathways or Sigrity
• Knowledge of Python for automated testing and prototyping

What we offer

• Expected wage range of $163,530 to $224,854, with possible variation
• Discretionary performance-based bonus
• Medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays and sick time