Senior IP Application Engineer

Alphawave • San Jose, CA

394d • $135,000 - $155,000

About The Position

Alphawave Semi enables tomorrow's future by accelerating the critical data communication at the heart of our digital world - from seamless video streaming to AI to the metaverse and much more. Our technology powers product innovation in the most data-demanding industries today, including data centers, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles. Customers partner with us for mission-critical data communication, our innovative technologies, and our proven track record. Together, we enable the next generation of digital technology. As an Alphawave Semi, Application Engineer, you are responsible for working with Front End Design engineers (RTL and Verification) to validate collaterals to customers designing their SoC with our IP's. In this role, you will enable IP Integration of Front end and Backend Collaterals, address customer issues enabling, configuring and integrating Alphawave Products. In addition, you will regularly engage with internal R&D team to provide customer application specific expertise to improve our product offerings. In addition, you will manage a team of Solution engineers to track and manage their work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Minimum of 3-6 years relevant IP &/or ASIC experience which can include mixed signal circuit design OR front-end design, synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, design verification and/or silicon validation.
• Seen end to end and seen silicon at least once.
• Domain knowledge of one the following interface protocols: PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, HBM, DDR, or UCIe.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive working experience with PCIe and/or Ethernet serdes
• Extensive working experience with industry standard simulators, timing analysis, firmware, hardware debug.
• Experience creating API-C test cases/DPI-C functions for configuring registers.
• Masters/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Engineering Science.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the IPG Application Engineering team to work closely on Design Verification, Pre-silicon Validation and Post-Silicon Validation teams to qualify AW IP's.
• Drive technical communication to customers from kick-off to silicon bring up.
• Diagnose, debug, and resolve customers issues during integration, simulation, implementation, timing closure, and silicon bring up.
• Author Data Sheets, Product Briefs, User guides and Application notes to enable customers to successfully design with our products or address specific design considerations.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Benefits

• Base salary within the range of $135,000 to $155,000 annually
• Short-term incentive program
• Retirement & Saving Programs
• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Comprehensive health plans
• Wellness Spending Account (WSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees