Senior Power Management Applications Engineer (DC/DC)

Kinetic Technologies, L.L.C.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinetic Technologies, L.L.C. in San Francisco seeks a Senior Applications Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in DC/DC buck converters and power management ICs. You will lead system-level design, validation, and device debug across customer projects.

You will own evaluation modules, perform efficiency, stability, and reliability testing, review schematics and layouts for power integrity, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with R&D, validation, and marketing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in power electronics or semiconductor applications engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with DC/DC buck converter design and analysis.
• Proven expertise in schematic capture and PCB design using industry-standard tools.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert for DC/DC buck converter products, supporting customers from initial architecture through production release.
• Lead hands-on lab activities including schematic development, PCB bring-up, validation, and device debug of power management ICs.
• Design, build, and debug evaluation modules (EVMs) and customer reference designs.
• Perform detailed system-level validation including efficiency, transient response, stability, thermal, protection features, and reliability testing.

Skills

Power electronics

DC/DC buck design

Lab validation & debugging

Schematic capture

PCB layout review

Customer-facing support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence

OrCAD

Job description

Kinetic Technologies, L.L.C. in San Francisco seeks a Senior Applications Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in DC/DC buck converters and power management ICs. You will lead system-level design, validation, and device debug across customer projects.

You will own evaluation modules, perform efficiency, stability, and reliability testing, review schematics and layouts for power integrity, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with R&D, validation, and marketing.