Senior Application Engineer

As an Alphawave Semi Applications Engineer, you are responsible for providing 1^st line technical support to customers using our IPs . In this role, you will provide timely responses in enabling, configuring and integrating Alphawave IPs into the customer’s SoC. In addition, you will regularly engage with internal R&D team to satisfy the customer’s application and constantly improve the customer’s IP integration experience.

What You’ll Do

• Drive technical communication to customers from kickoff to silicon bring up, coordinating with internal R&D teams as necessary
• Diagnose, debug, and resolve customers issues during integration, simulation, implementation, timing closure, and silicon bring up
• Author user guides, application notes and white papers that promote the IP’s ease of use, or address specific challenges in its implementation.
• Occasional travel is required.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Minimum of 5 years relevant ASIC experience which can include front-end design, synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, design verification and/or silicon validation
• Domain knowledge of one the following interface protocols:
  • PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, HBM, DDR, or UCIe

It’d Be Amazing If You Had

• Extensive working experience with PCIe and/or Ethernet serdes
• Extensive working experience with one or more: simulators, timing analysis, firmware, hardware debug
• Masters/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Engineering Science

About You

• Customer focused
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to listen to and appreciate ideas and opinions that differ from yours
• Extremely detail oriented
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Self-motivated and self-managing

Diversity & Inclusivity

Alphawave Semi is based out of one of the most diverse countries in the world. This includes differences related to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender expression and presentation, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability and socioeconomic status. To us, diversity is one our strongest assets to our organization. We commit ourselves to promoting the recognition and appreciation of our diverse and rich culture. We believe that it is critical to our success to promote freedom of thought and opinion in a respectful environment. The decisions we make are rooted by respectfully considering each other’s thoughts and opinions and by working towards a greater common goal.

Accommodation

Alphawave Semi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including visible minorities, Indigenous People, and persons with disabilities. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. If as a qualified job applicant, you request accommodation, Alphawave Semi will consult with you to provide reasonable accommodations according to your specific needs. If you wish to make a request, you will be provided an opportunity if you’re applications is selected to proceed in our hiring process.