Staff Engineer, Field Applications

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world. With revenue of more than $12 billion in FY23 and approximately 26,000 people globally working alongside 125,000 global customers, ADI ensures today’s innovators stay Ahead of What’s Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn.

Job Description: RF Staff Field Applications Engineer

Role Definition

We are looking for an enthusiast and dynamic RF Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to support our accounts in EMEA. As a Field Applications Engineer, you are the bridge between product development groups and top RF customers in EMEA. Your primary goal is winning new business through proactive in-depth design and development support that will solve customer challenges.

In this role you will be responsible for providing ADI’s customers with field applications support for RF and High-Speed Converter technologies with a strong focus on next generation Mixed-Signal Front Ends (MxFE) products. You will impact customer solutions with technology proposals from the early architecture phase via design and evaluation to mass production phase. Together with the customer’s engineering teams you will work on cutting edge RF and Mixed-Signal applications for key end-markets including instrumentation and quantum computing domains.

The RF FAE must be able to identify customer platform requirements (hardware and software) and work closely internally with Analog Devices Business Units. You will impact ADI’s RF and High-Speed Converter 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 RF 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 RF and Mixed-Signal systems across various end-market application domains.

• Support customers with a design of complex high-performance solutions integrating broad product portfolio of Analog Devices

• Establish and maintain customer relationships, organize on-site visits to provide customer service and sales support

• 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

• Perform customer’s schematic and layout review in collaboration with the Business Units

• Support customers with detailed walk through of ADI’s products features and guidance on how these features can be used in specific applications

• Provide product and board bring up trainings to customers

• Prepare and demonstrate tested use cases

• Support customers in a lab with troubleshooting and design-in process

• Generate high-quality documentation such as technical presentations or meeting notes

Qualifications and Skills required

• BSc/BEng/MSc in RF and Microwave Engineering or Mixed-Signal Design (or equivalent)

• 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

• Work experience >10 years in engineering with semiconductor and/or RF industries

• Profound understanding of high-frequency and high-speed signal chain architectures

• Very good knowledge of embedded systems and digital signal processing

• Good understanding of software design and its application

• Experience in using Python and Matlab

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Curious nature and willingness to challenge the status Quo

• Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills as need to collaborate with global teams

• Languages:  English (min. C1), German (min. B1)

• Available for travel 50% of working time

• Driving license required

For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export  licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.  As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.

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