Overview
Avago Technologies is seeking an Applications
Engineer. We have an immediate need for a world
class candidate to join us on this team building
exciting user interface products for the rapidly
growing mobile market. This is an exciting
position and requires an individual to be a
product innovator and provide field support to
Tier1 mobile OEMs. We are one of the world’s
largest privately held semiconductor companies
(formerly a division of HP). Compensation
packages include pre-IPO stock options.
There are Stanford Design Division alums already
on the team and we are keen to see additional
alums join our team. 218ers are particularly well
suited and have had considerable success in this position.
Applications Engineer
Job Requirements
· Act as Technical Representative on marketing visits to customer site
§ Answer technical questions posed by customers
§ Manage technical requests from customers
§ Influence customer designs to comply with design guidelines
§ Communicate/co-ordinate customer requests back to R&D
· Conduct regular discussions with R&D team to
become intimately familiar with all aspects of
User Interface system under development
· Create specs of customer system level
validation software tools for offshore software
team to develop. These will be non-proprietary
customer facing versions of internal R&D software tools
· Define architecture of customer facing web tools
· Provide training to FAE team – prepare tutorials and training materials
· Be frontline support for critical customer
field failures – debug customer HW and SW host
driver as needed to isolate root cause. Act as
“mini-R&D” debug at customer site
· Gather appropriate information from R&D and
write Application notes and datasheets for customers
· Become a product innovator- engage with Tier1
mobile customers to evaluate trends of advanced
User Interfaces in the mobile market (especially
in the highly developed Korean and Japanese
markets) and anticipate and evangelize new ideas
for R&D team- determine specs for engineering
team to implement. Think iPhone- what would the
next killer software application look like?
Hardware? How would the next version of YouTube
run on a mobile device? What types of HW features
would be needed on a new User Interface to support these new use case models?
· Manage internal and external resources to
co-ordinate building of mobile device concept
demos. This would require a good understanding of
SW requirements and Mechanical design
requirements. Sketching ability would also be
helpful in creating storyboards and concept drawings.
Candidate Requirements
· 4+ years experience in customer engagements as
technical representative for marketing
engagements and debugging critical field failures in hardware/chip industry
· Generalist with broad set of skills in
firmware, hardware, ASIC and software
§ Engage with R&D team to understand product
§ Able to act as principal representative
in front of Tier 1 handset customers
§ Debug critical field failures
· Experience with microelectronics, sensors and/or ASIC development
· Interest in mobile devices and smart phones with advanced UIs
· Creative idea generator - documented track
record of innovation with ability to seed ideas
for new hardware UIs and software applications
· Creative- basic understanding of mechanical
design requirements and sketching ability desirable
· Experience managing external contractors to
build customer mobile device concept demos (SW
and/or HW) to build demos desirable
· Excellent communication and organization
skills – able to manage multiple customer relationships
· Significant domestic and international (Europe
and Asia Pacific) travel required- may be as much as 25% to 50%
· Languages – Korean/Japanese a plus
· Masters in ME, CS or EE, 5-7 years of total work experience
About Avago
Avago is the former Semiconductor Products Group
of HP and was spun off with Agilent. In 2005 it
was taken private as Avago Technologies and is
now one of the largest privately held
semiconductor company in the world. Avago has
approximately 3000 employees worldwide and enjoys $1.6B in annual revenue.
<http://www.avagotech.com/>www.avagotech.com
Compensation
Compensation is competitive and includes a
significant bonus component. Pre-IPO shares are
available as well. Benefits are highly competitive.
How to Apply
Please send your resume to
<mailto:nid.recruiting@avagotech.com>nid.recruiting@avagotech.com
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correct recruiter please edit the subject line to include the job title
Sarangan Narasimhan
Technology Platform Manager
Avago Technologies
ME310 (2000), ME 218 (2001)
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