Senior FAE - Dardilly, France - ITEN

Description

ITEN is the leading industrial company developing and manufacturing solid-state lithium-ion micro-batteries in the form of SMD components. Such micro-batteries are rechargeable in a few minutes and are not only able to store high energy density but also to deliver power and high peak currents over a wide operating temperature range. ITEN's micro-batteries are the ideal solutions to back-up and power up applications in electronics, IOT (Asset tracking and monitoring, sensor data loggers, beacons and RF tags, autonomous wireless sensors in home and building automation, smart cities), medical devices and wearables or e-textile.

The Sales Team is seeking an enthusiastic Applications Engineer who will be responsible for the application electronics development of our micro-battery product portfolio and the technical support of our customers to help shortening their design phase. The job entails working with cross-functional groups to continually push the envelope of technology implemented in ITEN products

Tasks

• Specification and generation of application circuits and demo boards including GUI with circuit design steps, component selection, circuit schematics, bill of materials, and interface to subcontractors for PCB layout, assembly, test procedures and reports.
• Management of the system development project
• Specifications of possibly required mobile applications on smartphones.
• Development of the technical documentation (e.g. application notes and design guidelines, evaluation kit and reference design datasheets);
• To guide troubleshooting/analysis, competitive analysis, and to generate solutions, including support relative to applications and systems issues. support relative to applications and systems issues.
• To build and customize reference designs provided and to analyze, debug and resolve issues quickly.
• To promote Products and support design-in;
• To contribute to competitive technical analysis
• Collaboration with third-party semiconductor companies to generate reference designs based on ITEN's micro-batteries.
• Contribution to the definition of innovative and differentiated products.

Requirements

Education

The candidate should hold a masters' degree in engineering (High schools of engineers or University, "BAC +5 equivalent") with a specialization in electronics.

Required skills and experience

• More than 7 year-experience in the Electronics or Semiconductor Industry in an Applications or Electronics Design role.
• Proficiency in developing firmware and programming microcontrollers.
• Programming languages experience: C / C ++ and Python.
• Skills and experience in low power design (stand-by and deep sleep modes, power gating, etc.)
• Demonstrated 2-5 years industry experience in power management IC or related applications engineering.
• Good knowledge of USB, I2C, UART, SPI protocols).
• Good knowledge of RF protocols like NFC, BLE, UWB, LoRa, Zigbee and possibly Nb-IOT
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with operational amplifiers, analog/mixed signal, and power management ICs (PMIC) topologies, circuits, and applications.
• Very good familiarity with
• Microcontroller platforms and development environment.
• Analog circuits and buck, boost and buck-boost converters, as well as charge pump, LDOs, amplifiers/buffers.
• Power management architectures used in battery powered consumer/mobile devices such as data loggers, beacons, RF tags, asset tracking & monitoring solutions.

Mindset and interpersonal skills

• Ability to analyze, debug, and solve a wide variety of problems. Understands importance of customers and strives to provide timely support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels within the organization and cross functional teams.
• Self-motivated, passionate individual, comfortable delivering to a deadline in a fast-paced environment.
• Take ownership of project tasks and responsibilities – plan and execute to meet project milestones and deadlines, and customer deliverables.
• Ability to create and maintain strong customer relationships, and to attend and actively engage in high profile meetings with key customers.

Benefits

Would you like to play your part in a dynamic and very innovative multi award winning tech company? Join us and be part of what's next in energy storage.