What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applications Engineer - Principal position at Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.?
Company Overview :
MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for DataCenter, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications.Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and salesoffices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to theISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental managementstandard.
MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise withmultiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assemblyand test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, andAsia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundryservices that represents a key core competency within our business.
MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a saleschannel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized salesrepresentatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trainedacross all of our products to give our customers insights into our entireportfolio.
Principal Application Engineer - MMIC Products
A Principal Application Engineer is a critical team member responsible for helping customers with our diverse portfolio of MMIC devices. The devices span the range of low frequency passives to >
100GHz active devices currently, with new devices coming out all the time. The role is primarily to work with the team, investigating customer questions, evaluating MACOM devices in the lab, and providing data to our customers. Duties include hands-on time in the lab using microwave test equipment (PNA-X, other VNA's, Spectrum Analyzers, Power Meters), building and teaching others about complex lab setups, working with the team to design custom application-specific printed circuit boards, setting up related experiments, creating technical content and presenting it to customers, answering customer technical tickets, analyzing production data, writing application notes and updating datasheets. The goal of the application engineering team is to provide direct, confidence-building technical support to our customers. RF & Microwave experience is required. The applicant should be a self-starter, willing to dig into technical questions, with a passion for helping customers.
Specific Responsibilities :
- Testing on a PNA or PNA-X, including using a probe station
- Design and build supporting hardware for MACOM products such as evaluation boards, reference designs, and application circuits
- Update datasheets with application-related information
- Contribute to design reviews and other technical meetings
- Creative, strong team player who enjoys solving technical problems
- Eager to spend time in the lab setting up equipment and measuring devices
- Creates technical presentations, data packages, and other technical collateral to help customers
- Heavily involved in customer calls, instills trust and confidence, comfortable discussing technical issues
- Prepares and presents technical analysis / data to management as it pertains to customer inquiries
- Mentors colleagues
- Helps to create trade show demonstrations
- Provides the 'Voice of the Customer' at internal engineering meetings
Qualifications / Skills :
Team Mission Statement :
MACOM MMIC Application Engineering actively earns our customers' trust as first-choice supplier and partner by enabling their success. We provide world-class, opportunity-winning technical answers and relationship-building collaboration with and for our customers.
Team Vision Statement :
MACOM MMIC Application Engineering accepts the challenge to be the go-to support choice for our customers by providing fast, empathetic, experienced technical help, measurements and component collateral. Application engineering creates positive value by reducing entropy in the customer's design process.
EEO :
MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverseworkforce. MACOM will not discriminateagainst any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, geneticinformation, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any othercategory protected under applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodation :
MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonableaccommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mentaldisabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonableaccommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call 1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phonenumber and the position title and location in which you are interested, andnature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also workwith current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order toperform the essential functions of their jobs.
