Applications Engineering Manager, Power uModule Group

Applications Engineering Manager

The ADI Power uModule Team is seeking an experienced Applications Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for customer success, product execution, and business growth for industry-leading power module products. This role is ideal for a technical leader with strong power electronics expertise, proven people leadership, and the ability to align customer needs, product strategy, and engineering execution across multiple markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of applications engineers supporting power uModule products, including hiring, coaching, performance management, technical mentoring, and career development.
• Set team priorities and resource plans to support new product development, customer engagements, technical escalations, evaluation platforms, and business-critical programs.
• Drive application engineering strategy for power module solutions, ensuring strong execution across product definition, validation, documentation, customer support, and commercialization.
• Partner with product line management, design engineering, product engineering, marketing, sales, FAEs, and key customers to identify market needs and translate them into product and application requirements.
• Guide new product investigations, specification definition, evaluation planning, and release readiness for advanced power module products and system-level solutions.
• Support strategic customer engagements and visits across industrial, datacenter, aerospace, and other high-growth applications.
• Lead resolution of complex technical issues, including power attach, converter performance, and failure analysis support.
• Drive development of technical collateral including reference designs, design tools, application notes, training materials, customer presentations, conference papers, and tradeshow demonstrations.
• Analyze market trends, competitive technologies, and customer architecture shifts to influence roadmap priorities and expand ADI's uModule business opportunity.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, customer focus, and innovation within the applications engineering organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• MSEE in power electronics or related engineering discipline;
  PhD preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in power electronics, power management, applications engineering, product engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading, managing, or mentoring technical teams, with a track record of developing engineering talent and driving execution through others in the manager role.
• Deep hands-on expertise in designing, building, testing, and optimizing switching-mode power supplies, especially DC-DC converters.
• Strong understanding of analog circuits, power converter topologies, control loop design, compensation, static and dynamic performance optimization, EMI, thermal design, and system-level power architecture.
• Proven experience supporting key customers throughout the product lifecycle, from early architecture discussions and evaluation through qualification, production release, and sustaining support.
• Experience with design, simulation, and analysis tools.
• Excellent communication, technical writing, executive presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional programs involving product definition, new product development, customer adoption, and revenue growth.
• Strong knowledge of power module technologies, multiphase buck converters, high-current POL solutions, 48 V or higher-voltage architectures, isolated power, low-noise or low-EMI design, and high-power-density systems.
• Direct experience with schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, bench validation, failure analysis, and customer board-level troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with analog IC design, advanced packaging, magnetics, thermal modeling, parasitic extraction, and reliability considerations for power module products.
• Experience with digital power interfaces and communication protocols such as I2C and PMBus.
• Recognized technical leadership through patents, publications, conference presentations, industry participation, or significant customer and product impact.