Senior Applications Engineer

The Allegro team is united by a clear purpose—advancing technologies that make the world safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. With over 30 years of experience in semiconductor innovation, we bring that purpose to life across every part of the business—from breakthrough product development and customer success to how we show up for each other and the communities we serve.

The Allegro team is united by a clear purpose—advancing technologies that make the world safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. With over 30 years of experience in semiconductor innovation, we bring that purpose to life across every part of the business—from breakthrough product development and customer success to how we support one another and the communities we serve.

Allegro Microsystems, LLC (ALGM) is a leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing high-performance semiconductors. Allegro's innovative sensor and power IC solutions serve high-growth applications within the automotive and industrial markets. We are looking for an Applications Engineer with sensors and power electronics experience in our Shanghai office.

The Opportunity

As an Applications Engineer, you will be responsible for strategic customer support, developing demonstration platforms, reference designs and other written collateral to solve customer system problems for all the Allegro sensor IC product lines like current sensors, magnetic position sensors, speed sensors and inductive position sensors. You will work closely with Allegro system engineers, marketing personnel, design/test engineers, field sales and field application engineers in different regions, in supporting industry-leading customers.

Candidate should have strong organizational and interpersonal skills, be highly motivated to drive actions and assignments to closure and drive the business in strategic focus sub-segments within automotive and industrial markets. This role will interact with field application engineers and customers on a regular basis and involves domestic travel within China. Candidate should have a passion for building relationships and develop collaborations with marketing, sales, FAEs, distribution, partners and the various sensor and power IC product lines to expand our SAM and grow the revenue.

What You'll Do

• Provide systems and application engineering support to customers working with our sales and field applications engineers.
• Work with other applications engineers and marketing to develop collateral to outline the value proposition and use of our products in customer applications.
• Perform teardowns of customer products to gain better understanding of customer application requirements and develop system level knowledge.
• Build hardware and software reference designs and demos that will help our customers speed up their development time and effort.
• Engage with lead customers to identify system-level requirements, formulate partnership strategies and drive deeper technical engagements.
• Champion the generation of technical notes, application notes, tools and simulations required to make customer evaluation and development with our products easy and simple.
• Interact with and provide guidance to product marketing and technical teams to create differentiated products and solutions for the target markets.
• Focus on timely customer support for superior customer experience and outcome.
• Assist with special projects, corporate events, tradeshows, webinar, etc.
• Focus on execution and results with a high standard for performance

What You Will Need

• Bachelor or Master of Science Degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering
• With equivalent working experience in magnetic sensors applications or development is preferred
• 5+ years' experience in semiconductor industry
• Familiarity with laboratory test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies and voltage and current meters
• Ability to design and build basic hardware such as printed circuit boards, data acquisition systems, custom cables as well as hand soldered application boards.
• Programming skills in MATLAB or Python etc.
• Clear written and verbal English communications skills
• Strong teamwork skills
• Ability to occasionally travel to visit customers within China