Wide Band Gap Power Application Engineer

Product Application Engineer (PAE)

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Based on detailed application-product expertise and technical excellence, the Power Product Application Engineer provides in-depth technical customer support for Bipolar product portfolio with focus on Power Semiconductors / WBG Products (e.g. SiC, GaN / IGBT and Power Modules). Via technical collateral creation, the PAE supports design-in activities (at defined customers, market segments, with distribution partners, etc) as well as running business for our Marketing Focus Portfolio. The role actively contributes to build up a future proof product portfolio by capturing key application requirements and trends as well as through in-application validation of new products.

Candidate Responsibilities

• Work with existing colleagues (Account Managers, Business Development, FAEs), plus distributors & Sales Reps as appropriate, to increase and accelerate design pipelines in the Americas.
• Be an expert on relevant business products & roadmaps
• Provide tier 2 technical support & training
• Develop trusted relationships with design engineers, directly and through intermediaries
• Identify emerging applications & highlight prospective “rising star” customers
• Promote and utilize Nexperia’s Advanced Support Tools including models, evaluation systems, technical documentation, etc.
• Create engineering design assistance materials including application schematics / demo boards / simulations
• Contribute technical content to drive Awareness | Interest | Desire | Action (AIDA) within the design engineering communities of our customers & prospects
• Visit customers and provide technical training and/or design-in support with business development spirit.
• Contribute to reference designs based on application knowledge and customer input
• Provide customer input into technology capability roadmap
• Producing or adapting application notes and articles for publication
• Create regional-specific demos and marketing-support hardware
• Develop in depth technical understanding of our products and datasheet parameters
• Support quality with application guidance & circuit analysis, travel will be necessary
• Competitor technical product analysis, e.g., evaluate and report on in-circuit performance of competitor devices relative to our own products (e.g. benchmarking)

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or similar discipline
• 5+ years’ experience of power electronics applications, e.g., Power Supplies, Server Power, Solar and Automotive (OBC, IVT etc)
• A deep technical understanding from the customers’ application down to the product features and product & packaging development process. Must have ability to perform lab characterization & problem solving
• Convincing communication and presentation skills to work successfully with internal and external stakeholders in an international environment
• High self-motivation and desire to walk the extra mile for business creation and business success
• Able to work independently in close connection with our AMEC Sales team and the international colleagues.
• Familiarity with electronic product design processes, including component selection & qualification.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%
• High standard of written & spoken English
• Familiarity with prominent ECAD systems and simulation tools an advantage
• Experience in automotive technologies a plus.

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