Applications Engineer for High Reliability Compute Power
Monolithicpower· Semiconductors· Aug 18, 2026 · 2mo agoPosted 70 days ago
San Jose CA
In office
Full-time
Principal
$168K–$230K est.
5+ years exp
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Job description
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (MPS) is one of the fastest growing companies in the Semiconductor industry. We are worldwide technical leaders in Integrated Power Semiconductors and Systems Power delivery architectures. At MPS, we cultivate creativity, are passionate about sustainability, and are committed to providing leading-edge products and innovation to our customers. Our portfolio of technology helps power our world ---come join our team and see how YOU can make a difference.
Job Description:
MPS is seeking a self-motivated senior level engineer to drive system level architecture, product definition and application support for power management solutions for High Reliability Compute Power applications. This individual works closely with customers, internal teams such as marketing, sales and field application engineers to develop new products, and supports design-in activities of MPS compute products into customer projects. It is important to have a deep understanding of high reliability semiconductor component specifications in any one of the end applications such as satellites, aerospace, space or defense. System level understanding of power management solutions for SoCs, CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs used in such high reliability applications is desirable. Travel up to 10% of the time might be necessary.
Essential Functions:
Product Promotion: Partner with marketing to create marketing collateral to promote the products internally to field teams and externally to customers. Collect and organize data to highlight MPS product value proposition. Create appropriate materials to help field applications win.
Customer Support: Support field applications and customer engineers to design-in new products. Provide remote or on-site support to resolve any design issues.
Competitive Analysis: Maintain a good understanding of competitive landscape from technology, and product definition perspectives.
New Product Ideas: Understand customer’s current & future needs to influence product roadmap to add new products and product families.
New Product Launch: Develop datasheets and other product collaterals to help with product release.
Qualifications:
5-10 years of work experience in Product Definition, System Engineering or Applications in high reliability applications.
Experience with Power Management ICs for Space or Satellite SoC power is a plus.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Hands-on experience with PCB board design. Good understanding of schematics and layouts.
Experience with lab equipment to test and debug power management ICs.
BSEE or equivalent education required.
Location:
San Jose, CA or Kirkland, WA.
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Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (MPS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of MPS to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
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