Field Applications Engineer

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Job Description: Staff/Senior Field Applications Engineer (RF, Power, Embedded Software )

Reports To: Global Leader, Field Technical Team, (ADEF & Comms Segment) as part of Comm Sales Team.

Direct Reports: None

Location: Texas preferred; US home office possible

Role Definition:

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to support ADI's customers in NA and grow ADI's market share and business in this region.

As an FAE, you are the bridge between product development groups and ADI's key/strategic customers. Your primary goal is to satisfy ADI's customers and help them achieve their desired goals. You are determined to grow ADI revenue and opportunity pipeline. You will win new business through proactive and in-depth technical support. Your support will span through concept, design and development phases of customer projects. This will solve key customer challenges and reduce their time to market. An FAE works with a sales manager. Together, they form a field team which serves as an advocate and voice of its customers within ADI.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing ADI's customers with field applications support across the ADI product portfolio with a strong focus on Wireless (RF), Wired (Optical/Fixed), Power and High-Speed Converter products. You will impact customer solutions with ADI based technology proposals throughout the concept and design cycle. Together with the customer's key decision makers and engineering teams you will work on cutting edge applications for key end-markets including but not limited to Wireless Communications, Wired (Optical) Communications, Aerospace and Defence. As an FAE you must be able to identify customer platform requirements (hardware and software) and work closely internally with Analog Devices Business Units.

You must be able to identify customer platform requirements (hardware and software) and work closely with Analog Devices internal Business Units. You will impact ADI's RF, High-Speed Converters and Software Defined Radio product roadmaps and contribute to new product definitions together with ADI's System Engineering. You will take ownership for driving the resolution of all technical issues to ensure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the design in sales process. The FAE must be able to build trust, establish and maintain strong relationships with customers as well as ADI internal Business Units. You would need to invest in your product and system level knowledge on an ongoing basis through the various training and development opportunities.

Your tasks:

• Develop and maintain expert knowledge level for a wide range of ADI product portfolio, especially products from, RF, Mixed-Signal, SDR and Power domains.
• Support customers with high-performance solutions integrating ADI's broad product portfolio.
• Establish and maintain customer relationships, organize on-site visits to provide excellent support.
• Present new products, product roadmaps, applications and ADI solutions to partners / customers.
• Prepare and demonstrate tested ADI product use-cases using the evaluation platforms and examples.
• Prepare Proof of Concepts demonstrating the value added by ADI's chipsets to our customers.
• Deliver product seminars and trainings to ADI's customers on performance, evaluation and prototyping.
• Support customers/partners on device selection, design, review, bring up and debug.
• Provide technical support for complete signal chain solutions, including data converters, amplifiers, sensors, RF front ends, and RF power stages
• Support customer designs involving RF, RF Power, Satcom, 5G/Private 5G, mmWave, FPGA, and embedded software
• Guide customers in the adoption of chiplet-based architectures, with a focus on high-speed interconnects (e.g., UCIe, AIB) and advanced packaging (2.5D/3D, silicon interposers)
• Assist with integration of APIs and embedded software in hardware designs
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system-level challenges, including hardware-software co-design and power management for RF systems
• Stay up to date with industry trends in signal chain, RF power, chiplets, and wireless systems

• Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFQs.
• Listen, understand, and convey customer requirements identifying customer's needs and translating them into specifications and/or design ideas for the ADI's Business Units.
• Support customers in a lab with troubleshooting and design-in process.
• Perform customer's schematic and layout review independently and in collaboration with product lines.

• Generate high-quality documentation such as technical presentations or meeting notes.
• Develop technical documentation (power trees, design and simulation files, technical presentations) to educate ADI's customers and work force like FAEs, FSEs, BUs, TGs and management on our partner's ICs, platforms, and systems.
• Provide technical feedback and guidance to FAEs, FSEs and customers to support design-ins at
• end customers.

Qualifications and required skills:

• Education: BSc/BEng/MSc/PhD in Electrical, Electronics, RF and Microwave Engineering or Mixed-Signal Design (or equivalent or above)
• Experience: Work experience > 7 years in engineering with semiconductor and/or RF industries

Technical Skills:

• Profound knowledge in RF signal chain and Mixed-Signal design.
• Strong theoretical background on RF analog signal chains, high-speed converter technologies, digital interfaces, and hands on experience in designing RF and mixed-signal solutions.
• Profound understanding of high-frequency and high-speed signal chain architectures.
• Excellent debug skills and proficiency in using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, current probes,
• multimeters, electronic loads, etc.
• Very good knowledge of embedded systems and digital signal processing.
• Good understanding of wireless/radio communication systems like, 4G, 5G/Private 5G, mmWave, 6G, IEEE 802.11 based, WiFi, Cellular IoT, SatCom, Phased array radars, spectrum scanners. Jammers.
• Working knowledge of RF hardware design, familiar with RF lab equipment such as spectrum analysers, signal generators, oscilloscope etc.
• Good understanding of embedded software architecture, software design, software development, API integration and FPGA design and its application.
• Familiarity with RF simulation tools, such as ADISimRF, ADISimPLL, Electronic Workbench, ADS, Cadence
• Experience data processing and programming tools such as Python and Matlab
• Familiar with the use of software/hardware drivers and APIs in Linux based environments.
• Understanding of High Speed Data Interfaces, such as LVDS/CMOS, JESD, PCIe etc.
• Knowledge of Chiplets, Chip to Chip Interfaces, Multichip Modules.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage customer interactions in a professional manner and strategic thinking.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated with a proactive and curious mindset.
• Team player with strong collaboration and organizational skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Curious nature and willingness to challenge the status Quo.
• Strong organizational skills needed to collaborate with Global/Multicultural teams.
• Maintain CRM, projects and opportunities using sales/business intelligence tools such as MSD, PowerBI etc.

Language Skills: Full working proficiency in English. Additional languages are a plus.

Other:

• Valid driver's license.
• Willingness to travel extensively.

Additional skills (Good to have):

• Experience in customer project management in semiconductor or automotive industries.
• Background in product design or application support in semiconductor.
• Experience in C, C++, Python, and familiarity with modern Realtime OS's.
• Hands-on experience with processors and microcontrollers.
• Strong knowledge of communication protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI, UART, and Ethernet).
• Proficiency in debugging tools (JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers) and version control systems.
• System-level expertise in integrating software with hardware platforms.
• Willingness to learn design and simulation tools as well as LTspice, LTpowerCAD, LTpowerplanner, LTpowerplay, etc.
• Familiar with embedded system and real-time OS - exposure to one or more of Linux, Yocto, Ubuntu based systems - bring-up, device tree, peripheral customizations.
• Understanding of computer system architecture (core, cache, memory models, bus architecture, etc.)
• Experience in C/C++ programming, systems knowledge.
• Experience with testing tools/scripts (python, shell script) development on Windows and Linux.
• Hardware systems design experience

Further Details

• Location: Texas, USA (Remote, Hybrid)
• Time Type: Full time
• Job Type Regular
• Supervisory Organization NA/EMEA Sales

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Job Req Type: Experienced

Required Travel: Yes, 50% of the time

Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days