Staff Engineer Application Engineering (HW)

As a System Application Engineer, you will utilize your expertise to develop, optimize, and promote suitable solutions for customer systems. In this role, you will serve as a key member of the System Application Engineering team, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and customers to develop tailored solutions that meet their specific needs

Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Develop USB PD Controller sub-system and hardware architecture on Automotive in-cabin applications and ensure compliance with USB Specifications

• Debug and troubleshoot issues related to USB PD sub-system, including identifying and resolving problems, and collaborating with SW/Validation/Design teams to resolve system-level issues

• Test and validate USB PD sub-system applications to ensure they meet the required specifications, performance, and reliability standards

• Support new/customized feature implementation on customer design

• Conduct technical training on system levels with internal and external stakeholders

• Establishing and maintaining customer relations. Provide remote and on-site technical support to automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and design partners

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

• 5+ years of work experience in embedded system/hardware design development related fields

• Experience integrating MCUs into hardware designs, including power supply, reset, clock, boot configuration, programming interface, decoupling requirements, and board bring-up testing/validation

• Ability to review MCU-related schematics and PCB layouts, including power integrity, grounding, decoupling, reset, programming, and communication interfaces, and familiar with Altium Designer or Cadence Allegro

• Experience on DC/DC Controller design including voltage and current feedback loops for buck, boost, and buck-boost, load-transient response, output ripple, overshoot, undershoot, settling time, and loop stability

• Experience with oscilloscopes, differential probes, current probes, electronic loads, programmable power supplies, power analyzers, thermal measurement equipment

• Willingness to learn basic embedded C programming and debugging, including reading source code, analyzing logs, tracing program flow, and correlating firmware behavior with USB PD protocol events and hardware measurements

• Familiarity with Infineon development tools, including Power SDK,EZ-PD Configuration Utility, Modus Toolbox, MiniProg4, or equivalent embedded development environments is a plus

• Familiarity with ISO 26262, ASIL concepts, safety goals, safety mechanisms, FMEDA, FMEA, DFA, and safety manuals is a plus •,,Familiar with USB Power Delivery (PD) is a plus

• Good English communication skills, both written and verbal

• Fluent in Mandarin and English

Additional information by location

Austria This position is subject to the collective agreement for workers and employees in the electrical and electronics industry (full-time), employment group B for bachelor students, employment group D for master students (https://www.feei.at/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/minimum-salaries-white-collar-workers-2026-05-01.pdf).

Canada The candidate must be eligible to meet the requirements of export control regulations, including the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and Canadian government security requirements; and/or (as necessary):

• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance

• Must not pose a risk for safeguarding of controlled goods

• Must be eligible to handle US export-controlled data

Infineon welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

United States Infineon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.

Employment at Infineon is contingent upon proof of your legal right to work in the United States under applicable law, verification of satisfactory references, successful completion of a background check and drug test, and signing all your on-boarding documents.

In some instances, if applicable, U.S. export control laws require that Infineon obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing technologies to certain persons. This offer is contingent upon Infineon's ability to satisfy these export control laws as related to your employment and anticipated job activities. The decision whether or not to submit and/or pursue an export license to satisfy this contingency, if applicable, shall be at Infineon's sole discretion.

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Salary pay information: In line with local legal requirements, indicative salary ranges are disclosed for selected locations where applicable.

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