Diodes

Field Applications Engineer - Silicon Valley/Bay Area, CA

Diodes • $120K — $145K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BSEE required with at least 10 years of design or FAE experience
  • Deep knowledge of DC-DC converter topologies and LDO operations
  • Extensive experience with diode, TVS, and rectifier designs
  • Proficient in high-speed interface protocols like PCIe, HDMI, DP, MIPI, and USB
  • Automotive experience preferred
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Strong design and technical background

Responsibilities

  • Assist in managing territory for technical and sales support of various semiconductor products
  • Work closely with customers to understand system application requirements and identify new sales opportunities
  • Collaborate with marketing and engineering to define new products and support the automotive design cycle
  • Prepare data and documentation for customer product presentations and conduct training sessions
  • Prepare documentation for territory presentations at quarterly business meetings
  • Act as a teacher for sales channels and customer design teams

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • 401k with company match
  • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
  • Standard life insurance policy
  • Paid time off
  • Employee wellness program
Full Job Description
Diodes Incorporated is seeking a Field Applications Engineer responsible for supporting automotive customer accounts and transportation related accounts in the West coast Region. Primary responsibilities include proactively solving design challenges through creative application solutions and product recommendations. The position requires a significant amount of customer interfacing activity and demands excellent oral and written communication skills in addition to a strong technical background and experience with discrete semiconductors, analog ICs, power management devices, quartz frequency control devices, plus timing and connectivity ICs.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assist in managing the territory to provide customers with technical and sales support for such company products as diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, function-specific arrays, logic devices, crystals, crystal oscillators, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature sensors, power management devices, including LED drivers, AC-DC converters and controllers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, and voltage references along with special function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, motor controllers, connectivity and timing ICs, redrivers and retimers, and PCIe packet switches
  • Work closely with customers to understand their system application requirements for the purpose of obtaining new sales opportunities and providing technical recommendations
  • Collaborate with Diodes' marketing and engineering groups to define new products to meet customer needs, advance the technology solutions with the customer base and support the automotive design cycle
  • Prepare data and documentation for customer product presentations, conduct training sessions and demonstrating new products
  • Prepare data and documentation for territory/segment presentations at quarterly business meetings
  • Act in a teaching capacity with sales channels and customer design teams

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Ability to dissect technical needs and communicate product and application suggestions
  • Possess deep knowledge of DCDC converter topologies and LDO operations
  • Thorough understanding of how MOSFET and BJT work
  • Extensive experience with diode, TVS and rectifier designs
  • Proficient in high-speed interface protocols like PCIe, HDMI, DP, MIPI and USB
  • BSEE required with at least 10 years of design or FAE experience
  • Automotive experience (preferred)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Strong design and technical background
  • Keen problem solving skill set
  • Proactive self-starter capable of working independently with minimal supervision and high capacity to support multiple tasks with varying levels of complexity
  • Ability to work as part of a team to solve complex problems
  • Ability to communicate product and application suggestions to Marketing


We offer a competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401k with company match, company paid Short Term and Long Term disability and standard life insurance policy. Diodes, Inc. also provides paid time off and an employee wellness program.

About Diodes

Diodes Incorporated is an American manufacturer and supplier of discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. Its headquarters is located in Plano, Texas, United States. The company's products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, single gate logic, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature sensors; power management devices, including LED drivers, AC-DC converters and controllers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, and voltage references along with special function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers. The company's target markets include automotive, communications, computing, consumer electronics, and industrial.
Learn more about Diodes
Size
8,921 employees
Market Cap
$3.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$98 million
Founded
1959
5 Year Trend
+13.9%
Revenue
$1.2 billion
NASDAQ

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