Field Applications Engineer

About the Position

Silvaco is seeking a Field Applications Engineer to join their team in Silicon Valley, California. This role involves using technical knowledge of Silvaco product offerings to advise customers in their simulation efforts and address their technical obstacles.

Responsibilities

• Work with users of Silvaco tools to capture and isolate potential technical issues and suggest workarounds or alternate approaches.
• Understand customer workflow and represent user-defined needs and feedback into business units.
• Optimize customers’ experience with Silvaco tools by promoting configuration improvements and/or incorporating new features and capabilities.
• Work with applicable customer departments and functions to assure Silvaco products are properly installed and help validate the installations.
• Make technical presentations for products, use cases, and support status updates to customers.
• Generate ideas for configuration and workflow improvements based on obstacles customers face in their work.
• Document evaluation plans and customer support cases in Salesforce CRM.
• Keep up with advancements in key applications and workflow implementation.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics Engineering, Solid State Physics, or semiconductor-related academic program.
• 0-3 years of industry experience.
  • Demonstrated understanding/experience in Semiconductor manufacturing, R&D, and/or integrated circuit design processes.
  • Demonstrated design, modeling, and/or simulation tool usage as part of academic coursework, applied research, and/or industry work experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Intellectually inquisitive with creative problem-solving skills.
• Persistence in tracking complex problems and projects with minimal oversight.
• The ability to prioritize activities and deliver projects on time and within budget.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in semiconductor industry preferred.
• Experience in international and remote team building preferred.
• Understanding of Silicon Technology including front-end of line processing steps as well as electrical characterization of active semiconductor devices.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • CMOS Image Sensor or photodiode manufacturing, device operation including TCAD process and device simulation.
  • RF technology manufacturing, device operation including TCAD process and device simulation.
  • BCD technology manufacturing, device operation including TCAD process and device simulation.
  • Experience in TCAD calibration and Design of Experiments to measured data.
• Tool category experience:
  • Commercial TCAD tools (Silvaco or 3rd party).
  • Statistical tools and methods (e.g., JMP, Minitab, etc).
  • Python scripting.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting.
• Prolonged periods of typing.
• Clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (i.e., working with small objects or reading small print), including use of computers.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range determined by role, level, and geographic location.
• A full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.
• Depending on the position offered, equity, bonuses, commission, or other forms of compensation may also be provided as part of a total compensation package.

About the Company

About Silvaco: Silvaco is a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq market under the symbol SVCO. For over three decades, Silvaco, based in Silicon Valley, California, and with global locations around the world, has solved semiconductor design challenges by offering affordable and competitive TCAD (Technology Computer Aided Design) software, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software, proven design IP (intellectual property), and world-class support to engineers and researchers across the globe. Silvaco solutions span from atoms to systems: starting with simulation of material behavior impacting semiconductor devices, to design and analysis of transistor circuits, and lastly providing IP blocks for systems-on-chip (SoC) designs.