Manager, Applications Engineering

About the role

Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, is looking for an experienced and talented Manager, Applications Engineering to take on a critical role with expansive responsibilities to enhance Applications Engineering in a growing organization. This position will lead a global engineering team, ensuring customer support, roadmap definition, and product demonstration, with a focus on the sensors business, including MEMS microphones and vibration sensors. The role will also play a key part in supporting sensor needs for Syntiant’s Edge AI product portfolio and physical AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical resource for customers and sales teams, providing support for product evaluations, integrations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations.
• Partner with Product Management and R&D to help define the sensor product roadmap, conduct competitive analysis, and represent customer and market requirements.
• Lead the development of product demonstrations, application notes, reference designs, and other technical content that supports customer success and product adoption.
• Own and maintain customer-facing technical documentation, ensuring accuracy, quality, and consistency.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed Applications Engineering team, driving technical excellence, collaboration, performance, and career growth.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering to ensure customer feedback influences product strategy and development.
• Travel up to 25% domestically and internationally to support customers, partners, and business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; advanced degree preferred.
• 8-10 years of hands-on experience in the semiconductor/sensors field.
• 2-3 years of supervisory experience with demonstrated skills in performance management, decision making, conflict resolution, and inspiring others.
• Proven track record bringing products to mass production with high-volume consumer electronics devices.
• Excellent technical domain knowledge in MEMS sensors, audio, and vibration.
• Strong soft skills for product presentation and cross-functional engineering development.

Skills

Valuable experience includes audio, microphones, vibration sensors, MEMS, audio DSP, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, audio algorithms, and audio AI applications.

Benefits

• Medical: Several plan options including PPO and HSA-compatible plans from Anthem Blue Cross, most of which are 100% paid by Syntiant Corp. for you and your family.
• Dental: Company-paid dental PPO coverage from MetLife, including coverage for orthodontia.
• Vision: Company-paid vision PPO coverage from MetLife/VSP.
• Life Insurance / AD&D: Company-paid basic life/AD&D coverage in the amount of 3x your salary (up to $1,000,000). Additional supplemental life insurance with low group rates is available for yourself and your family.
• Disability Coverage: Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage provides up to 60% income replacement protection.
• Spending and Savings Accounts: Flexible Spending Account (FSA) benefits for Health Care and Dependent Care. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) for those enrolled in a qualified medical plan.
• 401K Retirement Plan: Administered by Empower, allowing you to invest a portion of each paycheck.
• Other Benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), as well as access to voluntary benefits including Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Support, and Identity Fraud Protection.

Pay

The starting base pay for this role is targeted to be between $175,000 - $200,000. Individual compensation decisions are based on factors including previous experience, skills, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company.

About Syntiant

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models power edge AI speech, audio, sensor, and vision applications across consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high-performance, deep neural network processors. The company also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint. Syntiant is backed by strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital.