Senior Application Engineer

ams OSRAM is a global leader in optical solutions. We focus on innovation across sensing, illumination, and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnoses more accurate and daily moments in communication richer.

• Create a deep technical system understanding by investigating all relevant system approaches to figure out benefits and drawbacks of the different system solutions.
• Support in all aspects—electrical, thermal, and optical—of a complete system to our customers and other internal customer-facing teams.
• Provide application support to ams OSRAM's existing customers and cultivate new relationships with potential new customers and partners by developing design proposals, hardware mock-ups, and any technical material.
• Identify and develop innovative applications for ams OSRAM’s products, extract and communicate key technical requirements for new product ideas from customers and the market, and work closely with the Product Management and R&D/Product Development team on the new product designs.
• Develop application-level documentation including design guidelines, reference designs, application notes & design tools.
• Collaborate with marketing and sales to develop & execute product and application solution promotion plans, providing technical product and application training.
• Promote ams OSRAM LED technologies through industry technical committees, technical conferences, events and trade shows.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, optoelectronics, or physics.
• 5+ years of experience in developing electronics systems or applications, preferably LED / Laser / Sensor-based systems, with practical experience with product, module, and/or system evaluations.
• Strong understanding of basic semiconductor devices and their characteristics.
• Understanding of thermal management concepts and photometry of optoelectronics devices considered a definite asset.
• Experience with customer interfacing, presenting at conferences, and technical writing.
• Programming / microcontroller development experience will be a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated and self-dependent working style.
• Ability to travel (approximately 20-30%).