High Definition Audio (HDA) Applications Engineer up to 120k base
Texas 

Benefits - Full

Relocation Assistance Available - Yes

Bonus Eligible - Yes
Interview Travel Reimbursed - Yes

Description

This position is responsible for directly supporting our customers’ design-in and production activities for High-Definition Audio (HDA) ICs that serve the portable- and consumer-audio markets. Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and have 6+ years of experience in an engineering role supporting PC-Audio/HDA products and customers.

Responsibilities:

    Develop reference designs and demonstration platforms for HDA products, including conceptualization, part selection, schematic entry, layout management, hardware validation, and release to production.

    Analyze and document HDA subsystem design in available consumer products, and retrofit them with available HDA-based solutions for customer demonstrations.

    Provide direct engineering support for HDA products.

    Collaborate with internal design and product-test organizations on targeted bench-level data collection and circuit evaluation.

Author, review, and update application notes, white papers, and reference-design manuals.

    Develop firmware and RTL modules to enable device evaluation platforms and customer design-ins.

    Write, customize, and execute software scripts for targeted data collection to facilitate customer application development.

    Work closely with external customers, field engineers and sales reps, and internal systems, design, marketing, and product-test organizations.

    Travel approximately 2 – 4 weeks per year, both domestically and abroad to support to our key customers and design opportunities.

    Collaborate with our marketing, systems, and design engineering teams to define our next-generation audio products.

    Autonomously manage customer- and project-related priorities.

Qualifications include:

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

    Strong knowledge of the Intel HDA specification

    Working knowledge of the UAA software stack, APOs, filter drivers, WLK, and DTM

    Lab, problem solving, and system-level electrical-circuit debugging

    Audio-testing techniques and measurement equipment

    Firmware development for C8051 architecture devices

    FPGA-targeted Verilog

    System-level simulation

    Analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits and system-level design fundamentals

    Schematic/layout design, implementation, design bring-up, and production-test development

    Low-power Class-D amplifier design and system-level implementation

    Design and testing for electromagnetic radiation compliance

    Digital audio interface technologies and specifications

    Digital audio signal processing algorithm development and configuration

Behaviors:

    Analyzes abstract problems and develops straightforward solutions

    Communicates clearly and efficiently, both verbally and written

    Coordinates team efforts to achieve individual goals

    Takes projects from concept to completion

    Strong drive for results

    Meticulous attention to detail

Tools/Software/Languages:

    Adobe FrameMaker

    Microsoft Office, Visio

    Audio Precision

    Visual Basic

PowerLogic and PowerPCB

Matlab

Verilog

    C/C++

5+ to 7 years of experience
Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree

Willingness to Travel - Occasionally

Skills and Certifications  nice to have
Adobe FrameMaker
Microsoft Office, Visio
Audio Precision
Visual Basic
PowerLogic and PowerPCB
Matlab
Verilog
C/C++