Low-power Audio Amplifier Applications Engineer up to 105k base

Texas 

Benefits - Full

Relocation Assistance Available - Yes

Bonus Eligible - Yes
Description This position is responsible for directly supporting our customers’ design-in and production activities for low-power audio amplifier and signal-processing ICs that serve the portable- and consumer-audio markets. Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.  Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and have 6+ years of experience in an engineering role supporting audio amplifier products and customers.

Responsibilities:

•Develop reference designs and demonstration platforms for low-power audio-amplifier and signal-processing products, including conceptualization, part selection, schematic entry, layout management, hardware validation, and release to production.

•Provide direct engineering support for low-power audio-amplifier and signal-processing 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 theoretical foundation and experience in power electronics, Class-D amplifiers, and related system-level design and debug

•Design and testing for electromagnetic radiation compliance

•Digital audio signal processing algorithm configuration

•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

•Digital audio interface technologies and specifications

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++