Principal Applications Engineer

SiTime Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Health and wellness

Parental leave

Legal services

Time off plans

Job summary

SiTime is seeking a Staff Customer Engineer to support customers with MEMS-based timing products for AI datacenters, networking, and data-center applications. You will collaborate with regional sales, design and product engineering to meet timing requirements, drive design-wins, and provide technical guidance from pre-sale to post-sale.

Responsibilities include understanding timing architectures, optimizing clock trees, producing technical documentation, and training sales teams.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of timing specifications and requirements in communication systems, enterprise and data-center applications.
• Hands on experiences on signal integrity. Be able to review customer schematics and PCB layout for noise coupling analysis and provide signal integrity recommendations.
• Designs, debugs, and documents evaluation boards and uses associated software to enable and optimize the hardware
• Support marketing and sales efforts with lab experimental data on next generation Products
• Good communication skills to provide prompt and insightful technical assistance to customers’ technical inquiries
• Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuits. Familiar with phase lock loop (PLL) and MEMS fundamentals a plus
• Hands on experience in Python scripting
• 10+ years of application and design engineering experience in related areas
• English proficiency is required, including the ability to effectively communicate, collaborate, and perform job responsibilities in a professional business environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of assigned key customer system timing architecture and technical requirements, provide pinpoint assistance to customer timing designs.
• Own and drive-to-completion design-wins by working with reginal sales to identify design-in opportunities, architecting Sitime timing solutions and resolve technical issues pre- and post-sale
• Identify and optimize customer application’s clock tree and timing architecture. Provide best possible solutions and address technical issues during the process.
• Train reginal sales team and channel partners by creating technical documentations such as white papers, application notes and user manuals
• Feedback customer pain-points in timing to help Sitime roadmap and strategy for future portfolio

Skills

Timing specifications & PLL know-how

Signal integrity analysis

Python scripting

Lab bench testing

English communication

PCIe Gen7/Gen8 jitter testing

Tools

PCB layout review

Jitter/eye measurement software

Job description

Job Summary

Timing is the heartbeat of all electronics, ensuring performance, resilience and scalability. For decades, quartz devices, non-silicon technology, have kept systems in sync, but they struggle in harsher, more demanding environments. MEMS-based Precision Timing delivers greater accuracy, smaller size and resilience. Today, MEMS timing powers over 400 applications, including high-growth ones in AI datacenters, automated driving, industrial and humanoid robots, wearables and IoT.

Our semiconductor MEMS programmable solutions offer a rich feature set that enables customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, smaller size, lower power, and better reliability. With more than 4 billion devices shipped, SiTime is changing the timing industry. For more information, visit: www.sitime.com .

Sitime is looking for talented Staff customer engineer eager to work to support our customers with our industry-leading low jitter timing products focusing on AI datacenters and communication systems. The customer engineering team routinely collaborates with marketing, reginal sales, design and product engineering teams to meet customer applications’ timing requirements. Your everyday work will have a significant impact on customer relationships, winning designs and growing revenue across Sitime’s current and future product portfolios.

We value diverse experiences, perspectives, and career paths, and welcome candidates who are excited to contribute to our mission.

Responsibilities:

• Develop deep understanding of assigned key customer system timing architecture and technical requirements, provide pinpoint assistance to customer timing designs.


• Own and drive-to-completion design-wins by working with reginal sales to identify design-in opportunities, architecting Sitime timing solutions and resolve technical issues pre- and post-sale


• Identify and optimize customer application’s clock tree and timing architecture. Provide best possible solutions and address technical issues during the process.


• Train reginal sales team and channel partners by creating technical documentations such as white papers, application notes and user manuals


• Feedback customer pain-points in timing to help Sitime roadmap and strategy for future portfolio

It is not necessary to meet all job requirements to be a qualified candidate for the position.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Deep understanding of timing specifications and requirements in communication systems, enterprise and data-center applications. Be able to perform lab bench testing for PCIe Gen7~8, SerDes (i.e., 224G) jitter/eye-opening compliances.


• Hands on experiences on signal integrity. Be able to review customer schematics and PCB layout for noise coupling analysis and provide signal integrity recommendations.


• Designs, debugs, and documents evaluation boards and uses associated software to enable and optimize the hardware


• Support marketing and sales efforts with lab experimental data on next generation Products


• Good communication skills to provide prompt and insightful technical assistance to customers’ technical inquiries


• Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuits. Familiar with phase lock loop (PLL) and MEMS fundamentals a plus


• Hands on experience in Python scripting


• 10+ years of application and design engineering experience in related areas


• English proficiency is required, including the ability to effectively communicate, collaborate, and perform job responsibilities in a professional business environment.

Desired Characteristics & Attributes:

• Teamwork: work within and across teams. Share and be transparent


• Due diligence: follow through customer technical issues to their completions


• Leadership: work independently; find solutions actively
  
• Creativity: imagine the impossible, think out of the box

Compensation:

At SiTime, we believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive compensation package designed to attract top talent.

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a quarterly bonus tied to the achievement of innovation goals—reflecting our commitment to recognizing meaningful impact. We also offer equity grants, providing a meaningful opportunity to share in the company’s future growth and success.

• Benefits offered: 401k plan, health and wellness that includes medical, dental, vision, life, parental leave, legal services, and time off plans.

SiTime is an Equal Opportunity Employer .

We treat each person fairly and we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment against anyone on the basis of any protected characteristics, including race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy, political affiliation, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, or marital status or other characteristics protected by law. SiTime participates in the E-Verify program.

Learn More about SiTime:

Review the Get to Know SiTime section of our career page to explore our culture, values, and what makes us unique.