Senior Staff Engineer, Power Electronics & Customer Impact

Infineon Technologies AG; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 129,600 - 178,200; Full time

Job summary

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. seeks a Senior Staff Engineer on the Marketing team to work with customers, turning designs into real solutions and building lasting partnerships.

You will lead bring-up, debugging, and test planning for SSPD evaluation boards, while translating customer feedback into design requirements and clear documentation. Strong lab, power, and mixed-signal expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• BSEE or MSEE preferred, or equivalent practical experience in electrical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in power protection and/or SMPS design, with exposure to wide bandgap devices (SiC/GaN).
• Strong hands-on lab skills with oscilloscopes, power analyzers, electronic loads, SMUs, plus board bring-up, soldering/rework, and safe high-voltage/high-power practices.
• Demonstrated ability to debug mixed-signal/power circuits, including gate drive, current sensing, protection thresholds, control stability, and thermal issues.
• Customer-facing problem-solving and communication skills, including translating technical symptoms into clear recommendations and documentation.
• Experience creating and executing test plans and proficiency with circuit simulation tools (e.g., SPICE).

Responsibilities

• Build, bring up, and debug SSPD evaluation boards and reference designs (SSCB/eFuse/eDisconnect).
• Diagnose and resolve customer system issues, including reproducing problems, performing root-cause analysis, and recommending design improvements.
• Develop and execute test plans and characterize performance across operating conditions and edge cases.
• Create and maintain application collateral such as schematics, BOMs, layout guidelines, test reports, application notes, and user guides.
• Collaborate closely with design engineers to feed validated learnings into product requirements, features, and validation coverage.
• Support customer prototypes during design cycles by providing hands-on lab support and structured guidance for successful integration.
• Promote and demonstrate SSPD products to prospective customers, align with sales/FAE teams, and communicate status, risks, and findings clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Lab skills

Customer-facing

Circuit simulation (SPICE)

Debug mixed-signal/power

Soldering

Power electronics

Education

BSEE/MSEE preferred

Tools

Oscillosopes

Power analyzers

Electronic loads

SMUs

Job description

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. seeks a Senior Staff Engineer on the Marketing team to work with customers, turning designs into real solutions and building lasting partnerships.

You will lead bring-up, debugging, and test planning for SSPD evaluation boards, while translating customer feedback into design requirements and clear documentation. Strong lab, power, and mixed-signal expertise are essential.