Applications Engineering Rotation

For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career! 

At Cirrus Logic, mixed-signal engineering drives our company. We develop high-performance, low-power signal processing solutions in audio, voice and haptics, delivering innovative end-user experiences and solving difficult challenges for new generations of mobile and consumer devices. While breaking the innovation barrier, we’ve also built an award-winning company culture, thanks to our extraordinary workforce and our ongoing efforts to champion and promote diversity, as well as our principles of equality and fairness in the workplace. Do you enjoy working alongside the industry's top engineers and solving sophisticated challenges for the world's top consumer brands? Join our team and help us continue to make this an exceptional place to work!

The Applications Engineer Rotation Program is a 24-month program intended to accelerate your knowledge and understanding of the role applications engineers play at Cirrus Logic. It gives context and supports your growth into a well-rounded engineer skilled in supporting the design challenges our customers face. The program includes 3 rotations: 2 in different assignments as an applications engineer and 1 in a technical role in one of the many groups that interact and collaborate with Applications Engineers.

At the end of the program, you will become a member of the Cirrus Logic Applications Engineering team that is focused on bringing leading edge Mixed-Signal Audio devices to market. You will play a fundamental role in bringing to market next-generation devices for Cirrus’ growing audio business and ensuring that our customers can easily and effectively integrate our devices into their end products.

Key Responsibilities

Provide direct engineering support for Cirrus Logic customers and field personnel

Develop reference designs and demonstration platforms

Develop application notes, white papers, demo-boards, and reference-design manuals

Develop firmware and RTL modules for customer reference and demonstration

Implement customer-application focused data collection and circuit analysis

Collaborate and communicate closely with IC Design Engineers, Systems Engineers and Validation Engineers to understand and define design requirements and customer use cases

Autonomously manage tasks and priorities

Travel approximately 2 weeks per year, domestically and abroad

Required Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with a GPA 3.5 or higher

Mixed-signal hardware and audio-related backgrounds are strongly preferred

Familiarity with scripting/programming languages such as Verilog, C, Python, MATLAB or similar

Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, audio analyzers, logic analyzers or spectrum analyzers

Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license.  Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.
Cirrus Logic strives to select the best qualified applicant for any opening. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable law.