Applications Engineer, Principal

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Applications Engineer, Principal

Description:

A Principal Application Engineer is a critical team member responsible for helping customers with our diverse portfolio of MMIC devices. The role is primarily to work with the team, investigating customer questions, evaluating MACOM devices in the lab, and providing data to our customers. Duties include time in the lab using microwave test equipment (PNA-X, other VNA’s, Spectrum Analyzers, Power Meters), building and teaching others about complex lab setups, working with the team to design custom application-specific printed circuit boards, setting up related experiments, creating technical content and presenting it to customers, answering customer technical tickets, analyzing production data, writing application notes and updating datasheets. The goal of the application engineering team is to provide direct, confidence-building technical support to our customers. RF & Microwave experience is required. The applicant should be a self-starter, willing to dig into technical questions, with a passion for helping customers.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Testing on a PNA or PNA-X, including using a probe station
• Design and build supporting hardware for MACOM products such as evaluation boards, reference designs, and application circuits
• Update datasheets with application-related information
• Contribute to design reviews and other technical meetings
• Creative, strong team player who enjoys solving technical problems
• Willing to spend time in the lab setting up equipment and measuring devices
• Creates technical presentations, data packages, and other technical collateral to help customers
• Heavily involved in customer calls, instills trust and confidence, comfortable discussing technical issues
• Prepares and presents technical analysis/data to management as it pertains to customer inquiries
• Mentoring colleagues

Qualifications / Skills:

• BS in Electrical Engineering – MS is a plus
• 7+ years of experience as an engineer in the semiconductor field
• Knowledge / experience with RF & Microwave products
• Experience in testing a wide arrange of RF & microwave parameters in the lab
• Exceptional team and communication skills to interface with internal cross-functional teams, and of course customers.
• Comfortable with lab automation via python (minimum able to code with python and willing to aggressively learn to control the equipment)
• Comfortable with data analysis/plotting tools such as Minitab, JMP, python/matplotlib, etc.
• Comfortable using EDA tools such as Keysight ADS, Keysight EMPro, HFSS, AWR
• RF & Microwave system design knowledge/experience a plus
• Patient and thoughtful approach to helping our customers succeed in their endeavors
• MMIC Design background a plus
• Due to ITAR regulations, candidates must be a US citizen or Permanent Resident.

Team Mission Statement:
MACOM MMIC Application Engineering actively earns our customers' trust as first-choice supplier and partner by enabling their success. We provide world-class, opportunity-winning technical answers and relationship-building collaboration with and for our customers.

Team Vision Statement:
MACOM MMIC Application Engineering accepts the challenge to be the go-to support choice for our customers by providing fast, empathetic, experienced technical help, measurements and component collateral. Application engineering creates positive value by reducing entropy in the customer’s design process.

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call +1-978-656-2500 or email Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.