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NXP's Advanced Power Systems (APS) product line is seeking an application engineer with expertise in power management applications. As an application engineer for the APS product line at NXP, you will be working on the fast paced, and leading edge for power management devices for the latest in consumer and industrial applications. You will be a major influence in the development, evaluation, and support of low-power management in consumer, wearable, and industrial products. We are looking for a candidate that can understand the technical problems customers face and provide technical solutions to resolve those issues.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Good understanding of principal power architectures such as Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, and related process and package technology, trade-off between system/design constrains, power/thermal analysis

• Responsible for evaluating power management devices in handheld power applications, writing application notes, and giving technical support to FAEs and customers.

• Understand basic knowledge of measurement tools and method for analog circuit characterization, Efficiency, Gain-phase stability, transient response etc.

• Prior experience in designing evaluation boards and bench validation/automation test setup

• 3+ yrs experience in analog electronics experience working for a team for application support and/or designing power supply system.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience on circuit testing and trouble shooting in lab environment. Extensive customer design-in support experience with power management product is preferred.

• Basic Microcontroller experience, understanding microcontroller architectures, state machines and basic C coding skillset.

• Battery management, basic understanding of battery charging/discharging and basic principles considered as a plus

• Work closely with product definers, design, business management, and customers throughout the product evaluation and optimization

• Provide technical support to key customers and field engineers

• Write application notes, user guides, articles, design ideas, datasheet manuscripts for internal/external publication Research competitive solutions and devise better ones

• Support new product development and key customers. Participate in board-level design reviews with internal engineering team and prepare evaluation kits.

• Good communication skills, able to explain system concepts and detailed technical requirements (writing and/or verbally) to internal teams and customers.

• Self-motivated, creative and results-oriented.

• Prior experience in PMIC and the end product power requirements, preferred for either IoT/Industrial or Automotive applications.

• BS or higher degree in electronic engineering or related discipline

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