Current Openings

Description:
The Staff Field Application Engineer will lead technical engagements with our commercial customers, deploying EDA solutions into the market to enable and accelerate customer success.

Field Applications Engineers are primarily responsible for managing pre- and post-sale technical support in partnership with Account Management teams. Through customer engagement, industry knowledge, and collaboration with software development teams, the FAEs position the solutions to fit customer and industry needs, and lead to win-win technical successes.


ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES; include but not limited to:

Technical Knowledge
- Significant experience with SPICE simulation and SPICE simulators for analog, mixed-signal and/or memory circuits.
- Significant experience with schematic editors.
- Experience in statistical analyses inside ICs (Monte Carlo analysis, Silvaco VarMan, for example).
- Familiar with industry standard EDA design environments and able to script in standard languages (Bash, Csh, Perl, etc).
- Able to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and creative ways, exercising judgment within broadly defined practices and policies

Communication
- Foster communications within FAEs and between FAEs, BU, and Sales
- Represent company well using mass communication via live technical marketing efforts (e.g. webinars, conference presentations, etc.).
- Record of contributions to sim standards, application notes, examples

Initiative & Leadership
- Mentor T1 & T2 Field Applications Engineers, Staff Field Applications Engineers
- Recognized owner of key technical engagement activities with customers and partners
- Leads cross-team projects of medium-term duration and reasonable complexity
- Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.

Complex Problem-solving
- Handles complex issues independently
- Generates novel solutions and workarounds to common complex problems.
- Identify problems and devise solutions based on limited information and precedent and adapts existing approaches to resolve issues. Uses evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select right course of action required.

Task & Project Management
- Task coordination of own efforts, as well as with other team members
- Develop project plans for small projects
- Responsible for setting and meeting customer expectations on project
- Tracking projects with formal documentation, including summary reporting when required
Customer Focus
- Know where the customers spend the most time in their challenges and how our tools help
- Identify technical champions and influencers
- Strategic focus to connect existing products to customers future success
- Ideas for product enhancements to increase customers reliance

Requirement:
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

- BS, MS, or PhD in EE or CSEE, with emphasis in integrated circuit design
- 5 years plus relevant experience
- Experience in semiconductor industry required. Experience as an end user customer of EDA tools, and/or experience supporting commercial EDA tools desired.
- Ability to integrate into multi-time zone remote teams and work flexible schedule when needed.
- Travel 5-20% if required. Primarily domestic, rarely international
- Experience in semiconductor industry preferred.
- Experience in international and remote team building preferred.