Principal Power Applications Engineer

Taipei
Mixed Signal Products (MSP) – Mixed Signal Products (MSP) /
Full Time /
On-site
For nearly four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for an award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career! 

You will be part of the Power Applications Engineering team based in the Cirrus Logic (Ltd) Taipei Taiwan branch office, reporting to Headquarters. The successful candidate will be focused on bringing leading-edge Power and Mixed Signal devices to market in Taiwan as well as other regional locations, for PC applications. This position plays a fundamental role in bringing to market next-generation devices for our growing power and battery management business by ensuring that our customers can easily and effectively integrate our devices into their end products. The individual also serves as an instrumental member between the Field Applications team and Headquarters Marketing and R&D teams on analyzing customer systems and emerging markets, thus guide the architecture design for the company’s future products. 
 
In addition to working with a world class R&D team, this exiting job will also offer the candidate the rare opportunity to gain industry exposure and earn management experiences in terms of flow optimization for new product deployment and cross-functional cooperation, which is ideal for candidate who is looking to broaden horizon and expand skill sets for career enhancement. The individual will take part in ongoing discussions with major platform partners on revolutionary innovations on power architectures. As a core member of the regional Applications team, the individual will also work closely Applications manager and FAE manager on conducting case studies of support challenges and defining, improving and formalizing the BU’s product deployment procedures, support flow and collateral. Working with Field Applications team to support customers during the complete lift cycle of new product development, integration into the customer product is key daily work for this role too. 

Responsibilities

    • Collaborate and communicate closely with tier 1 customers, field technical team, marketing, and internal engineering teams to define, architect, and create collateral for customer use cases for complex IC designs. 
    • Provide training to field technical team and when necessary, provide direct engineering support for Cirrus Logic customers. 
    • Develop reference designs and demonstration platforms.
    • Develop application notes, white papers, demo-board, and reference-design manuals.
    • Execute customer-application focused data collection and circuit analysis.
    • Contribute to next-generation product definition.
    • Autonomously manage tasks and priorities
    • Expect to be at customer locations in Taiwan on a monthly basis, with travel abroad approximately 5 weeks per year. 
    • Please expect weekly evening calls with Head Quarters to help solve customer issues by working with cross functional team in the United States. 

Required Skills and Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with 7+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
    • Fluent Mandarin and English in both speaking and writing is a must for this position.  
    • Experience in working on power products for PC applications. 
    • Experience with integrated switched-cap converter, DC-to-DC switching buck and/or boost converters, battery chargers, and fuel gauge. 
    • Demonstrated aptitude in system understanding of various industry interface standards such as I2C, SPI, USB, UART, I2S or high-speed control/data bus examples.
    • Experience in component selection, schematic entry and knowledge of PCB layout design.
    • Familiarity with scripting/programming language such as Verilog, C, Python, MATLAB or similar.
    • Solid hands-on experience in lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and specialized power supplies. 
    • Proven experience debugging customer system level issues.
    • Effective interpersonal skills, with a track record of interacting directly with customers. 
    • The candidate needs to be a strong team player, and have extensive experience working with cross-functional teams that include design, systems, PTE, FA, and program management to drive progress for their product. 

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

    • MS in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of relevant experience.
    • Demonstrated experience in the design and development of power solutions in PC applications (Desktop/Laptop). Experience in mobile and or automotive power is also a plus. 
At Cirrus Logic, we believe that diversity drives innovation, and we are committed to encouraging an open and collaborative culture where different approaches, ideas, and points of view are respected and valued. We aim to promote a workplace where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, color, national origin, religion or belief, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or disability.