Staff Engineer, Product Applications

Job Location: Durham, North Carolina

Job Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Creating customer facing collaterals including design tools, simulation models, presentations, application notes, demos, and technical articles.
• Working with internal and external customers through system integration, circuit design, optimization, troubleshooting, and testing.
• Developing and conducting product/application technical training and demonstrations for field personnel and customers.
• Investigating customers’ applications and learning new applications in different markets.
• Owning reference designs and supporting products evaluation and debug.
• Engaging with marketing, customers, and the sales organization to understand market, technical, business needs, and competitive landscape.
• Defining new products.
• Collaborating with cross functional teams to solve challenge problems.

Requirements

• Must have a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Electronic Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline and four (4) years of experience in the proffered job or a related occupation.
• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) in the design and analysis of switching power converters — including buck, boost, flyback, and LLC topologies — with emphasis on efficiency optimization, loop stability, and transient performance.
• DE with Control-loop design and compensation techniques such as Bode plot interpretation, gain/phase margin tuning, and crossover frequency optimization) for stable and robust converter operation.
• DE of analog and mixed-signal circuit design principles, including gate-driver design, current-sense networks, protection circuitry, and feedback signal conditioning.
• DE in PCB schematic and layout review for power-stage designs, focusing on high di/dt current loops, ground-return management, and EMI reduction practices.
• DE in EMI/EMC compliance knowledge, including mitigation techniques such as RC snubbers, input/output filters, shielding, and understanding of CISPR 11/22/25 or equivalent standards.
• DE using electrical laboratory instrumentation, such as oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power analyzers, frequency-response analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and thermal measurement tools, for validation and debugging of converter performance.
• DE with Circuit simulation and modeling using SPICE, SIMPLIS, or equivalent platforms for pre-layout analysis and post-silicon correlation.
• DE troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of power-supply and analog system failures, including component stress, thermal issues, and control-loop instability.
• DE in technical documentation and communication, including preparation of application notes, design guides, evaluation board manuals, and internal test reports.

Pay

$167,400 - $199,229 per year