Sr Staff Application Engineer

Horizon Search Inc; Pavia; In loco; EUR 75.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading semiconductor company located in Pavia, Italy, is seeking a Sr Staff Application Engineer to support internal teams and customers with system debugging and performance tuning. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and at least 5 years of experience, along with strong debugging skills. The position offers a competitive salary, bonus, and relocation support in a full-time on-site work environment.

Servizi

Competitive salary

Signing bonus

Paid relocation

Performance bonuses

Competenze

• 5+ years of experience in relevant roles or job offered.
• Strong knowledge of communication and transmission line fundamentals.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Mansioni

• Support teams on debugging at the system level.
• Analyze and debug silicon-level internal IPs.
• Develop and execute validation test plans.

Conoscenze

Communication fundamentals

Debugging skills

Test script generation

Analytical skills

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related field

Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Strumenti

Oscilloscope

Logic Analyzer

TDR

VNA

BERT

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

Sr Staff Application Engineer

Pavia, Italy €75,000 to €110,000 + Bonus + SIGNING BONUS + Paid Relocation

Responsibilities

• Support internal or external teams on system-level debugging.
• Analyze Bring up, debug, and characterize silicon-level internal IPs such as High-Speed SerDes, for various semiconductor products.
• Evaluate and debug new features in PHY, develop driver firmware, collect performance data, and resolve application and production issues, including Ethernet and PCIe products.
• Provide direct technical support to top-tier customers and work with them to review designs, discuss questions, and help tune performance to meet system requirements.
• Develop and execute bench-level validation test plans and develop scripts in Python, VBA, and MATLAB to automate testing.
• Generate an appropriate test report and write application notes.
• Provide technical support to customers for resolving all technical issues and for furnishing collateral documentation related to technical matters.
• Act as a primary technical interface between the company and customers.
• Qualify design activity at the customer engineering level and participate in the definition of new products and the identification of niche areas that present new opportunities.
• Location : Pavia, Italy.
• Work Model : Full-time, on-site.

What We\'re Looking For

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering / Science or related technical field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Master’s degree on Electrical / Electronic Engineering or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering is preferable.
• Strong fundamentals of communication, transmission lines, EM, microwave theories.
• Test Script generation in Python, VBA, MATLAB or other language.
• Debugging using equipment like Oscilloscope (Keysight, Tektronix, Teledynelecroy), TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer, Tektronix), VNA (Vector Network Analyzer, Agilent), Logic Analyzer (Tektronix, Agilent).
• Bench analysis using equipment like BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester, Keysight, Anritsu) or AWG (Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Tektronix) in a plus.
• Performing 5G, 10G, 25G NRZ and 53G PAM-4 Transmitter Compliance test measurements using IEEE Compliant HCB (Host Compliance Board) test fixture is a plus.
• Performing electrical compliance testing for PCIE Gen4 / 5 using PCI-SIG Compliance boards is a plus.
• Experience and knowledge on high-speed SerDes Printed Circuit Board design and system application.
• Creating and performing validation test cases and generating reports including the gathered data and target results.
• Attitude to interact with remote teams.
• Willing to travel
• Fluent in English both spoken and written.