Staff Applications Engineer
Description
Job Summary
As Staff Applications Engineer, you will be responsible for switching power supply systems development and design engineering.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Researches and defines switching mode power supply topologies based on the specialties of the company's products
- Helps develop algorithms to automatically optimize power supplies using PI’s products and assist in developing the PI Expert Software Suite
- Assists in new product development and research new applications for both new and older generations of Power Integrations’ IC products
- Designs and develops switching power supply units (psu) using the company's products for design documentation/training material or customer requirements
- Evaluates switching power supplies built with the company’s products
- Provides switching power supply design support and technical advice to internal and external customers
- Researches and write technical application materials for publication and presentation at technical conferences, industry seminars, trade magazines and data books
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- BS Electronics Engineering or Electrical Engineering graduate
- Eight (8) years of design experience in any of the following areas:
- power converters/conversion/management
- switching/switch mode power supply units (PSU)
- inverters
- power electronics design equipment
- analog electronics design
- control loop design
- power magnetics design (transformer, chokes or inductors)
- Experience designing power electronic circuitry for industrial electronic equipment or consumer devices is desirable
- Excellent written and oral communications with experience in specification creation, technical report writing and test plans/instructions
- Team player
- Firmware development skills is desirable