Senior Staff Engineer Applications

Socket.dev; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Infineon Technologies in El Segundo, CA (and Austin, TX) is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer Applications to enable customers to transform our products into cutting-edge designs. The role sits on the Customer Collaboration and Technical Marketing team.

You will collaborate with top AI and CPU silicon suppliers, provide design-in support, develop evaluation boards, and drive go-to-market tools while traveling about 10% to support customers.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or relevant experience in power electronics.
• Strong knowledge of DC/DC power conversion and magnetics.
• Hands-on experience designing DC/DC switching power supplies below 60V.
• Lab skills with test & measurement equipment and Python scripting.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI and CPU silicon suppliers to design efficient DC-DC regulators.
• Provide design-in support, system bring-up, and issue resolution for customers.
• Support design of digital multi-phase controllers and power modules.
• Design and test new evaluation boards and reference designs.
• Validate VR solutions for customer applications and create tools.
• Assist with schematic reviews, board bring-up, and system validation.

Skills

DC/DC power conversion topologies

Power MOSFET characteristics

Control loop designs

Lab skills

Python

Schematic entry

Circuit simulation

PCB layout tool

Independent work

Education

MSEE

BSEE

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Function generators

Network analyzers

Job description

#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life.

Bridging needs with innovation - where customer challenges become our next big idea. As a Senior Staff Engineer Applications on our Customer Collaboration and Technical Marketing team work hand-in-hand with our customers, enabling them to transform our products into cutting-edge designs, all while building long-lasting partnerships that thrive on success.

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Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Collaborating with top AI and CPU silicon suppliers to design smaller, more efficient, and more powerful DC-DC buck regulators
• Support FAE and customers by providing design in support, system bring up and validation, and technical support issues
• Providing application and design support for digital multi-phase controllers, integrated power stages, and power modules
• Designing and testing new product evaluation boards
• Validating new products and VR solutions for customer applications
• Creating go-to-market evaluation boards, reference design schematics, application notes, and design tools
• Supporting customer design-in activities, including schematic and layout reviews, board bring-up, system-level validation, and debugging

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• An MSEE with 1-3 years of experience in Power Electronics or a BSEE with10+ years of experience
• Strong knowledge of DC/DC power conversion topologies, power MOSFET characteristics, magnetics, and control loop designs
• Hands-on experience designing DC/DC switching power supplies (Low Voltage below 60V)
• Excellent lab skills, including the use of digital oscilloscopes, function generators, and network analyzers
• Proficiency in design lab automation routines using Python and experience with schematic entry, circuit simulation, and PCB layout tool
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Approximately 10% travel towork with leading AI and CPU silicon suppliers

Additional information

Infineon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.

Employment at Infineon is contingent upon proof of your legal right to work in the United States under applicable law, verification of satisfactory references, successful completion of a background check and drug test, and signing all your on-boarding documents.

In some instances, if applicable, U.S. export control laws require that Infineon obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing technologies to certain persons. This offer is contingent upon Infineon's ability to satisfy these export control laws as related to your employment and anticipated job activities. The decision whether or not to submit and/or pursue an export license to satisfy this contingency, if applicable, shall be at Infineon's sole discretion.

Infineon Technologies takes data privacy and identity theft very seriously. As such, we do not request personally-identifiable information (PII) from applicants over the internet or electronically. Please kindly refrain from disclosing your PII electronically during the application process or to unauthorized websites that may purport to be Infineon or any of our affiliates.

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Salary pay information:

• El Segundo, CA and Austin, TX, United States
• Wage range that the company expects to pay for a qualified candidate: US$ 135,900– US$ 186,900
• In addition, all employees will be eligible to participate in an incentive plan.

#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization.
As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.
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