Applications Engineering, Sr Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

Central product engineering role to liaison between R&D, Field engineering teams, along with product engineers within and other product teams.
Test new product features through alpha and beta phases, identify and document usage scenarios, conduct Beta testing with interested customer counterparts and ensure successful deployment of new differentiating features.
Provide technical and engineering insight and direction to Field engineering team for successful support of tool across all customers.
Study and improve usability, applicability and adoption of products, platforms and solutions to meet customer business needs.
Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues on customer installations
Deploy and train customers on new implementations and capabilities.
Review and analyze feedback on product and solutions performance from customers and other application partners
Work directly with Research and Development (R&D) to develop and implement technical roadmap, specifications and validation for improvements and enhancements.
Partner with customer technical leaders and Sales to identify business challenges, develop effective technical solutions for new accounts and increase utilization and retention of products on current accounts.
Demonstrate creativity in building effecting test scenarios to exercise product features and identify issues as early as possible in development and deployment life cycles.
Handle customer escalated situations with calm demeanor and create alternative solutions to un-gate critical engagements and production stop scenarios.

Requirements:
Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.
Possesses solid background in Spice simulations (HSPICE, FineSim and industry standard simulators) with ability to create and work with spice decks and netlists.
Experienced in standard cell characterization and basic concepts of timing (NLDM, CCST, CCSN), power (NLPM, CCSP), noise (CCSN), LVF, AOCV/POCV methodologies.
Resolves issues in creative ways. to create usable workarounds and alternative solutions.
Exercises independent judgment in selecting methods and techniques to obtain solutions. Executes projects from start to completion. Contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project.
Determines and develops recommendations to solutions. Works on team-driven or task-oriented projects. May guide more junior peers with aspects of their job. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
Collaborates across various related tools to provide a complete solution to customers.
Possesses excellent communication and inter-personal skills.