Applications Engineer

Company: Phlux Technology Ltd

Location: Sheffield, UK (+ occasional remote work possible)

Type: Full-Time

Reports to: VP Marketing

Responsibilities:

• Customer delivery of evaluation kits.
• Opportunity to travel and attend trade shows and customer facilities to demonstrate products/RDKs and support customers (examples include Photonics West in San Francisco, CIOE in Shenzhen, China).
• Become a technical product expert for Phlux’s range of detector and photonic products.
• Provide technical and market application requirements inputs into product roadmap and support technical product definition/contribute to technical datasheets.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Technical competency: Experience within Applications engineering, design engineering, evaluation engineering or similar of Detectors/optical components and/or optical communications systems; experience in analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor products; sensors, electronics and components.
• Problem solving: Logical and methodical approach to fault finding and issue support on products and with customer design-ins. Support RMA activities where required.
• Tools: Adept at using tools for presentation and data visualisation, semiconductor modelling and simulation tools, circuit simulation where required. Use AI tools where appropriate to increase efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Teamwork: Engage with sales, FAEs, Factory Applications, Marketing. Strong cross-functional and interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in some of the following: Device modelling, Photodiodes and Receivers, APDs, Schematic/PCB design, optical sensors and sensing, Laser Range Finding, LiDAR, high speed optical communication systems, OTDR, signal integrity/RF skills, electronics and components, reference design development, knowledge of optical components (e.g. TO-can, Pigtail, ROSA, BOSA).
• Customer Centric: Strives to achieve excellent customer experience.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills: Bias towards data-based decision making.
• Action oriented: Works with strong sense of urgency, can manage multiple priorities, takes the initiative.

Success in the Role (First 12 Months):

• Be a technical product expert for Phlux’s range of photonic products.
• Regular and efficient customer interaction and resolving of customer technical queries.
• Fully immersed in day-to-day product and lab testing for internal and customer related activities.
• Aim to support an agreed targeted value of new product design wins of our Aura product range across automotive LIDAR, geospatial LIDAR, optical fibre sensing and defence applications.
• Developed a sound understanding of the markets, applications, and eco-systems for Phlux’s products.
• Helped in the development of reference design kits and evaluation platforms.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Share options with tax efficient EMI stock options - Own a part of the company.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday.
• 5% employer contribution to pension scheme.
• Relocation package.
• Exciting and dynamic work environment as part of a growing start-up.
• Recruiting referral bonus scheme.

Hours of Work:

We work 37.5 hours a week, Monday – Friday. The candidate will be required to be on-site for a minimum of 4 days per week at our offices and lab in Sheffield.