Sr. Applications Engineer

The Allegro team is passionate about providing intelligent solutions that move the world toward a safer and more sustainable future. With more than 30 years of experience developing advanced semiconductor technology, innovation with purpose touches every aspect of our business.  From customer engagement and employee recognition to technology advancement and serving the local communities in which we maintain offices, innovation consistently drives our mission and definition of success. 

We are looking for a Sr. Applications Engineer for our Industrial and multi-market team to be part of the Power IC team in our Pune office.
Summary
As an Applications Engineer, you will be responsible for strategic customer support and develop demonstration platforms, reference designs and other written collateral to solve customer system problems for all the Allegro power IC product lines. You will work closely with Allegro system engineers, marketing personnel, design/test engineers, field sales and field application engineers, in supporting industry leading customers.
Candidate should have strong organizational and interpersonal skills, be highly motivated to drive actions and assignments to closure and drive the business in strategic sub-markets for Industrial and automotive segments. This role will interact with customers on a regular basis and involves domestic travel. Candidate should have a passion for building relationship and develop collaborations with marketing, sales, distribution, partners and the various power IC product lines to expand our SAM and grow the revenue.
Responsibilities

• Provide application and system engineering support to customers working with our sales and field applications engineers

• Work with other systems engineers to develop collateral to outline the value proposition and use of our products in customer products/applications

• Perform teardowns of customer products to gain better understanding of customer application requirements and develop system level knowledge

• Build hardware and software reference designs and demos that will help our customers speed up their development time and effort

• Engage with lead customers to identify system-level requirements, formulate partnership strategies and drive deeper technical engagements

• Champion the generation of technical notes, application notes, simulation tools and reference designs required to make customer evaluation and development with our products easy and simple.

• Champion the evaluation of new silicon, including the design of hardware and software for product evaluation on the bench

• Interact with and provide guidance to product marketing and technical teams to create differentiated products and solutions for the target markets

• Focus on the no touch customer journey (online support) to deliver superior customer outcomes and superior customer experience

• Assist with special projects, corporate events, tradeshows, webinar, etc.

• Focus on execution and results with a high standard for performance

Essential Requirements

• Master of Engineering (ME, MS) or PhD Degree in Electrical/Electronics with specialization in power electronics

• 5+ years’ experience in semiconductor/electrical/electronics industry

• Experience on the power electronics, electrical/electronic components, SMPS, motor drives.

• Familiarity with laboratory test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, Bode analyzer and experience in hand soldering

• Understanding of basic DC-DC converter concepts: Loss and thermal calculations, different control strategies, topologies..

• Good analytical capabilities.

• Ability to design and build basic hardware boards using the Allegro power ICs

• Experience on software for printed circuit boards like Altium

• Programming skills in MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++

• High voltage laboratory experience is desired

• Clear written and verbal communications skills

• Strong teamwork skills

• Experience developing partner networks and/or development communities

Locations:

• Pune, INDIA