Senior Application Engineer - Analog/Mixed-Signal
- Job: 36816-TPEN
- Team: Technical Sales Engineering
- Location: US-CA-Santa Clara
- Salary Range: $138,800 - $215,100
Job Summary
Do you want to make an impact on cutting‑edge semiconductor technology and enjoy working directly with customers? As an Application Engineer, you’ll partner with some of the most innovative companies in the semiconductor industry to enable them to design, model, verify, and implement next‑generation analog and mixed‑signal systems using MATLAB® and Simulink®.
In this customer‑facing, pre‑sales engineering role your technical depth meets real‑world impact. You’ll work closely with customers to understand both their engineering challenges and business goals, then demonstrate how MATLAB and Simulink can accelerate development, reduce risk, and enable first‑time silicon success.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical pre-sales support and guidance to the sales organization, prospects, and customers in the domain of analog/mixed-signal design by:
- Preparing and delivering presentations, demonstrations, and application examples in customer meetings, seminars, and other public events
- Managing product evaluations and developing adoption plans that assist customers in adopting MathWorks products
- Provide direction and guidance regarding the Semiconductor Industry to the sales and marketing organization
- Partnering with sales representatives to help develop account-level and territory-level selling strategies for the Semiconductor Industry
- Partnering with marketing teams to build awareness of MathWorks solutions within the Semiconductor Industry
- Identify new trends and application areas in the Semiconductor Industry and provide feedback to development and marketing teams. Collaborate with the worldwide team on developing compelling messages and demonstrations
- Advocate for the future direction of MathWorks products based on customer interactions
- Establish rapport and credibility with our customers across multiple hierarchy levels to build champion users and supporters of our solutions
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
Additional Qualifications
- A Master’s degree in engineering and 5-12 years of relevant experience in the Communications, Electronics, Semiconductor, or related industries
- Strong knowledge and experience in top-down (system-level) design of PLLs, DACs, ADCs, SERDES, or other analog/mixed-signal, is a prerequisite.
- Experience with EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, or Mentor Graphics) is a prerequisite
- Experience with Hardware Description Languages (VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-AMS, or SystemVerilog) is a plus
- Good understanding of the product development lifecycle and design-flows used in the Semiconductor Industry
- Experience using MATLAB and/or Simulink is a strong plus
- Experience in a customer-facing role is a strong plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are prerequisites
- Strong motivation to work directly with customers is a prerequisite
This position is based in Santa Clara, CA with travel potentially throughout North America for customer visits and seminars. Travel time could be up to 30% with trips generally no longer than 5 days.
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
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