Senior Director TM Controller & PoL Applications

As the Sr. Director TM Controller & PoL Applications, you will be the Technical interface to R&D and customers, support technical Go-to-Market activities, provide Technical customer support on application and product level to secure design-ins.

Applications Engineering senior director leading and managing Power Application Engineering team from product concept through the product development cycle, the silicon design-in at customers and the production life cycle of the product. Position requires a focus on the technical innovation and quality delivery of product concept and definition, silicon development, design-in collateral including demo boards, and collaboration on internal and external customer partnerships to allow Infineon to meet revenue goals.

• Directs and guides the activities of a technical application engineering team that as a group are responsible for development and go to market for multiphase controllers, power stages point of loads, PS/PoL modules
  , and customer design-in of these products
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the Andover, San Jose, Warwick RI, and El Segundo, CA System Application Engineering group
• Plan and implement the EP application roadmap with demo boards and topologies for Server, AI, GPU and datacom applications
• Manage the annual reviews and promotion plan for the team
• Plan for team growth in personnel and in site needs for AE’s
• Create and implement procedure to guide work in product definition, product verification, and collateral including DS, App notes, simulation software and GUI
• Leading and contribute to multi-phase digital controllers, point of load, and power stages product feature definition
• Find a path forward when technical, personnel and/or business issues arise.
• Propose and implement technical improvements to controller design especially in the areas of control type, transient response, current balance, and other power performance areas of the controller
• Engage in continuous learning about leading and working with others and pass relevant/key learnings onto direct reports and line managers
• Travel (Approximately 25% of the time) to provide on-site leadership and conversation

• Leadership and management of technical power engineering team
• Experience in using digital controllers and PoL for power management
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• Highly motivated, energetic and enthusiastic
• Good communication skills in both verbal and written English.
• Technically sharp in power supply control techniques
• Great coaching, leadership, and mentoring skills to help the team develop
• Extensive knowledge of semiconductor design process, application development and customer support.
• Prioritization, multiple project management, time driven results.
• Detailed knowledge of Industry specifications used in the controllers such as SMBUS, PMBUS, and Intel SVID
• Able to collaborate with all functions in the organization from Program management, to IC design, Software (GUI) development, Marketing, FAE’s and sales to ensure companies success
• Extremely responsive, ready to jump on the most difficult design and/or customer issues instantly
• Good at developing relationships with internal and external engineering community
• Effectively multi-task, manage priorities and solve technical problems independently.
• Self-learning, self-disciplined, and a good team player.
• Approximately 15+ years in engineering design and/or applications engineering and customer support. 8+ years of managing application engineering teams.
• Ideal candidate should have a strong hands‑on experience with DC/DC switch mode power supplies including buck, boost, buck‑boost converters and high current power stages
• BSEE or MSEE preferred with…