Senior Application Engineer (ZL25)

Summary Description:

Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, is looking for an experienced and talented Senior Application Engineer to take on a critical role with expansive responsibilities to enhance the Application Engineering in a growing organization. The Senior Application Engineer will be responsible for application testing, evaluating new designs, preparing technical reports and collaborating with sales, marketing, engineering and customers.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of supporting documentation for new products which include data sheets and application notes.
• Establish and maintain customer relations, especially with the technical stakeholders. Strongly influence new products and technology roadmap to meet customer requirements.
• Assist R&D and QA in conducting root cause analysis on customer returns.
• Write white papers on relevant transducer topics for internal and external publications.
• Design product demonstrators to promote new products and features. Interface with global sales and field application engineers to provide support to fast paced consumer electronics industry.
• Responsible for product development for our Consumer MEMS Microphone business segment.
• Work with our internal R&D department and our customers as it relates to testing, evaluating new designs, competitive analysis and supporting technical reports for our sales, marketing, engineering departments as well as our customers.
• Tools used: Audio Precision, speakers, function generators, oscilloscopes.

• Acoustic signal analysis, digital signal processing, acoustic experiment setup development.
• Master’s degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Electrical Engineering, Acoustics, Physics or a related quantitative field or foreign equivalent and two years as an Application Engineer, Acoustic Engineer or related occupation.
• Experience must include working in high tech industry related to audio or sensors;
• Hands-on lab experience: electronic and audio testing; Working with analog and digital audio systems: microphones and speakers.
• Working with audio formats, audio signal chain in modern consumer electronics;
• Utilizing Acoustic simulation: lumped element and finite element; Using MEMS and ASIC design concepts;
• Utilizing Analog circuit design and ADC experience; and Using signal processing and audio software skills including FFT, and FIR/IIR.  

• Medical: Several plan options including PPO and HSA-compatible plans from Anthem Blue Cross, most of which are 100% paid by Syntiant Corp. for you and your family. 
• Dental: Company-paid dental PPO coverage from MetLife, including coverage for Orthodontia. 
• Vision: Company-paid vision PPO coverage from MetLife / VSP. 
• Life Insurance / AD&D: Company-paid basic Life / AD&D coverage in the amount of 3x your salary (up to $1,000,000). Additional supplemental life insurance with low group rates is available for yourself and your family. 
• Disability Coverage: Company-paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability coverage provides up to 60% income replacement protection. 
• Spending and Savings Accounts: Flexible Spending Account (FSA) benefits for Health Care and Dependent Care. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) for those enrolled in a qualified Medical plan. 
• 401K Retirement Plan: Administered by Empower, the 401(k) plan allows you to plan for your future by investing a portion of each paycheck. 
• Other Benefits: A company-provided Employee Assistance Program (EAP), as well as access to additional voluntary benefits including Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Support, and Identity Fraud Protection.

About Syntiant:

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors. Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com.

One element in our total compensation package is base pay. The starting base pay for this role is targeted to be between $125,923-$150,000/yr. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to previous experience and skills acquired prior to joining Syntiant, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company. It is to be expected that candidates will come to us with different sets of skills and experiences and therefore will be paid at different points in the stated range. We recognize that the person(s) we select for hire may be less experienced or more experienced than the role as posted; if this is the case, any updates to available salary ranges will be communicated with candidates during the recruitment process.