Elevate Semiconductor

Fabless semiconductor designer of ATE ICs

Senior Applications Engineer

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Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

A BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required.
Three to seven years of professional experience in applications, test, product, or systems engineering on semiconductor products is required.
Extensive experience with bench equipment, including oscilloscopes, source measure units, power supplies, arbitrary waveform generators, and probing techniques, is required; candidates should be able to explain a problem they found and fixed at the bench.
Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits is required.
Clear communication and the ability to explain technical findings to engineers and managers are required.
Willingness and ability to travel occasionally as business needs require are required.

Responsibilities

Lead complex customer and system-level investigations by defining the problem, reproducing it in the lab, driving root cause with Design, Product, and Quality Engineering, and closing the loop with the customer.
Generate technical documentation for Elevate products, including datasheets, product guides, application notes, and other materials that support integrating the devices into customer systems.
Interface with internal engineering teams to help bring new products from initial concept through production release.
Perform bench testing and analysis to support customer inquiries and troubleshooting, reproduce customer observations, and provide technical guidance on using Elevate parts.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis in conjunction with the operations team.
Coordinate with the sales team throughout the sales process by assisting with product recommendations for new customer designs and conducting on-site customer visits to promote Elevate IC products.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in semiconductor test, automated test equipment, measurement equipment, or high-performance instrumentation is preferred.
Experience in analog or mixed-signal design or transistor-level debugging is preferred.
Exposure to PCB design review and bring-up, or experience using Altium or Allegro, is preferred.
Familiarity with SPICE simulation tools such as LTspice or PSpice is preferred.
Experience using programming languages or tools for test automation and data analysis, such as Python, C, JMP, or Excel, is preferred.

Senior Applications Engineer

Elevate Semiconductor · San Diego, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-04

Salary: USD 110,000–130,000

Workplace: on_site

Department: Applications

Description

ElevATE Semiconductor designs low-power, high-density ICs for Automated Test Equipment (ATE), including integrated pin electronics. Our products sit inside the testers that test everyone else's chips, so our customers are some of the most demanding engineers in the industry.

Applications Engineering is a role that sits between those customers and our Design, Product and Quality engineers. We write the guides customers rely on, build the EVMs and software they evaluate with, and drive the end to end technical debug when something in their system doesn't work. A typical week includes time at the bench, and time explaining what we find to someone who needs to act on it.

What we look for at every level:

Bench instinct. You've debugged real hardware with a scope, supplies and an SMU, and you trust measurements over assumptions.
Curiosity. When a result looks wrong you want to know why, not just make it go away.
Clear Communication. You can turn a complex problem into a clear investigation someone else can act on.
Ownership. On a small team, the problem you pick up is yours until it's closed or handed off cleanly.

About this role

This is the engineer who takes a customer issue or a new EVM from start to finish with little hand-holding. You'll spend real time in the lab, own documentation for the products you support, and be the customer's go-to technical contact.

Responsibilities

Lead complex customer and system-level investigations: define the problem, reproduce it in the lab and drive root cause with Design, Product and Quality Engineering and close the loop with the customer.
Generation of technical documentation for Elevate products including datasheets, product guides, application notes and other material to support integration of these devices into customer systems.
Interface with internal engineering teams to help bring new products from initial concept through production release.
Perform bench testing and analysis to support customer inquiries and troubleshooting issues. Reproduce customer observations and provide technical guidance on how to use Elevate parts.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis in conjunction with the operations team.
Coordinate with the sales team through the entire sales process by assisting with product recommendations for new customer designs and on-site customer visits to promote Elevate IC products.

Requirements

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
3-7 years professional experience in applications, test, product or systems engineering on semiconductor products.
Extensive experience with bench equipment: scopes, SMUs, supplies, AWGs, probing technique, and knowing when the setup is the problem. You should be able to walk us through a problem you found and fixed at the bench.
Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits.
Clear communication and the ability to explain technical findings to both an engineer and a manager.
Willingness and ability to travel occasionally as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Semiconductor Test, ATE, measurement equipment or high-performance instrumentation
Experienced in Analog, Mixed Signal Design or Transistor Level Debug
Exposure to PCB design review and bring up or using tools such as Altium or Allegro
Familiarity with SPICE simulation tools such as LTspice, PSpice
Experience using programming languages or tools for test automation and data analysis such as python, C, JMP, Excel

Benefits

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $110,000.00 to $130,000.00. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, education, location, and business needs.

In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for incentive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. This salary range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the compensation it reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting.

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About the Company

Elevate Semiconductor

Fabless semiconductor designer of ATE ICs

Elevate Semiconductor designs specialized, high-performance integrated circuits for the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) market in a fabless model. Its products include high-density, low-power pin electronics, PMUs, device power supplies, and SoCs like Rainier and Mystery that integrate pin electronics, PMUs, and DACs to speeds up to 1.6 Gbps; manufacturing is outsourced to partners such as Polar Semiconductor and GlobalFoundries. The company differentiates itself by addressing tight ATE challenges with analog/mixed-signal ICs that shrink power use and PCB space, while expanding through private‑equity backing and a broader Asia presence. Its goal is to provide reliable, high-speed test ICs that boost efficiency for board-level testing, burn-in, and semiconductor validation labs worldwide.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Acquired
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: San Diego, CA
Founded: 2012

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