Description
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Principal Applications Engineer to support deployment and adoption of advanced memory characterization solutions at leading semiconductor companies worldwide.
This role combines deep technical expertise in memory design, characterization, circuit simulation, and library generation with strong customer engagement and technical leadership skills. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to customers, helping them develop, validate, and optimize memory characterization methodologies while working closely with R&D, Product Management, and worldwide field teams.
Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Technical Leadership
- Serve as the primary technical interface for strategic semiconductor customers deploying memory characterization solutions.
- Lead customer evaluations, proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, and production deployments.
- Work directly with customer memory design, characterization, CAD, methodology, and library teams to understand requirements and drive successful adoption.
- Provide technical leadership during customer escalations and resolve complex issues involving memory design, SPICE simulation, characterization, library generation, and signoff validation.
- Deliver technical presentations, methodology reviews, workshops, and training sessions.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor helping customers improve characterization quality, runtime, scalability, and deployment readiness.
- Drive competitive displacement opportunities involving migration from alternative solutions.
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts involving Applications Engineering, Product Management, R&D, and customer engineering teams.
- Travel as needed to support key customer engagements, deployments, and strategic initiatives.
Technical Responsibilities
- Support characterization of SRAMs, register files, ROMs, embedded memories, custom memory macros, and memory compilers.
- Develop and optimize memory characterization methodologies across advanced process technologies.
- Debug and resolve characterization, modeling, simulation, convergence, and library quality issues.
- Drive validation and correlation activities for timing, power, leakage, and variation-aware models.
- Assist customers in deploying scalable production characterization flows.
- Collaborate with R&D to reproduce customer issues and influence future product enhancements.
- Develop best practices, reference methodologies, and technical collateral for customer adoption.
Requirements
- Experience with one or more of the following characterization tools: PrimeLib, SiliconSmart, LiberateMX, Solido.
- Experience with simulation technologies including HSPICE, PrimeSim XA, CustomSim, Spectre, and NanoTime.
- Knowledge of advanced modeling and library views, including NLDM, CCS Timing, CCS Noise, LVF, and variation-aware characterization methodologies.
- Strong understanding of signoff methodologies and downstream consumption flows.
- Proven customer engagement experience supporting strategic semiconductor accounts.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, technical managers, architects, and executive stakeholders.
Benefits We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs.