Senior Staff Systems Application Engineer

Portable Power Management Senior System/Applications Engineer

This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly-dynamic power management application team within Broadcom Corporation. This factory AE position involves power management and battery management (PMU) chip level verification. The position is based in Irvine California. The PMU integrates complex mixed-signal design that includes multi-mode switching buck regulators, boost regulators, LDOs, battery chargers for Li-ion battery, fuel gauge, ADC converter, and audio amplifier with complex system usage models.

As a Senior Application Engineer, you will be involving in the new product development of state-of-the-art cell phone and wireless handset power management unit (PMU) integrated circuits. Products include highly integrated power management units, multi-function switchers, linear regulators, and battery management devices for Industry leading cell phone and handhelds customers. You will evaluate and characterize these new products (ICs) to ensure that they meet Broadcom's high-quality standards. For example, testing new power management ICs at chip level and system level. Performance device usage model verifications to make sure they function as expected. Verify many combinations of chip usage by end customers. Provide support to bring up actual phone system. You will be documenting your lab works and write test reports. You will be working with product line marketing and IC design team for each product definition, design phase support, evaluation and customer support. You may be involved supervising junior engineers and interns.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on the forefront of new technologies with the company armed with the tools and system knowledge and to work on power products that will be used in millions of well-known end handheld products.

Responsibilities:
• Conduct chip and usage model testing for new PMU chips on Evaluation board and custom specific phone platforms
• PMU chip level and system level validation and bring-up
• Support for PMU chip bring-up at platform level including system hardware validation and integration
• Support PMU software and Broadcom internal platform teams during system driver integration and bring-up phases of new chips and phone platforms
• Design PMU application schematics and layouts, review customer’s design and provide feedbacks to customer for implementations
• Conduct chip and system level failure and root cause analysis
• Help team to author datasheet, application notes, design notes and other technical articles/user documentations to record applications and product related scientific processes.
• Supervise junior engineers and interns
Job Requirements :  Typically requires a BS degree and 9 years of experience, an MS degree and 6 years of experience or a PhD and 3 years of experience Emphasis on power electronics is preferred.

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in portable power management semiconductor industry or system level design experience in cell phone/ handheld OEM/ODM industries
• Detailed knowledge of various Li-ion battery chargers and battery management, LDOs, dc-dc regulators, and audio amplifiers
• Extensive experience with lab test equipment and power management related test techniques and evaluation
• Extensive knowledge of power management layout techniques and trade offs
• Skills in data analysis and technical reporting
• Must be able to work in highly dynamic environment and be able to manage multiple priorities
• Team oriented, self starter, who requires a minimal learning curve
City :  Irvine
State :  California
Country :  United States