Elevate Semiconductor

Fabless semiconductor designer of ATE ICs

Applications Engineer

Solution EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or be graduating soon.
Zero to two years of professional experience in applications, test, product, or systems engineering on semiconductor products.
Extensive experience with bench equipment, including oscilloscopes, source measurement units, power supplies, and arbitrary waveform generators, gained through an internship, co-op, research, a personal project, or a senior-design project.
Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits.

Responsibilities

Generate technical documentation for company products, including datasheets, product guides, application notes, and other materials supporting integration of the devices into customer systems.
Support customer and system-level debugging by defining the problem, reproducing it in the lab, driving root cause analysis with Design, Product, and Quality Engineering, and closing the loop with the customer.
Perform bench testing and analysis to support customer inquiries and troubleshooting.
Reproduce customer observations and provide technical guidance on using the company's parts.
Build, bring up, and maintain evaluation boards and lab setups.
Answer customer and internal questions by collecting details, reproducing issues, and drafting reports on findings.
Learn schematic review and system troubleshooting on real customer designs with mentoring.
Take ownership of smaller support issues and documentation tasks while building experience.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis with the operations team.
Support sales activities by assisting with product recommendations for new customer designs and visiting customers on site to promote the company's integrated circuit products.

Desired Qualifications

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

Applications Engineer

Elevate Semiconductor · San Diego, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-13

Salary: USD 85,000–100,000

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

We want someone early in their career who already likes being in the lab and wants to get very good at it. You'll start with bench measurements, EVM support and documentation, working alongside senior engineers, and take on customer issues as you build product knowledge.

Responsibilities

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.
Support customer and system-level debug: 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.
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.
Build, bring up and maintain EVMs and lab setups.
Help answer customer and internal questions: collect the details, reproduce the issue and drafting reports on what you find.
Learn schematic review and system troubleshooting on real customer designs, with mentoring.
Take ownership of smaller support issues and documentation tasks as you grow.
Support failure, quality, and reliability analysis in conjunction with the operations team.
Support sales activities 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 (or graduating soon)
0-2 years professional experience in applications, test, product or systems engineering on semiconductor products.
Extensive experience with bench equipment: scopes, SMUs, supplies, AWGs from an internship, co-op, research or a serious personal or senior-design project.
Experience with analog and mixed-signal circuits.

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 $85,000.00 to $100,000.00. 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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