Application Engineer - Bay Area

Rohde & Schwarz USA is looking for a highly motivated Wireless Chipset Application Engineer in California's Bay Area. In this role, you’ll provide solutions to the complex problems faced by engineers and scientists designing and building today’s most advanced wireless applications. Working alongside our Sales, Marketing and R&D teams, you will be demonstrating products, providing training, developing new features on our test solution and delivering technical support to our wide-ranging customer base throughout the US. By functioning as a consultative solutions provider, our Applications Engineers are often treated as an extension of the customer’s internal technical teams.

Your tasks

Technical consultant for RF parametric testing supporting both R&D and manufacturing projects
Demonstrate R&S manufacturing solutions with different wireless modem chipset vendors to the customers
Develop, integrate and test R&S manufacturing test automation solutions within customer’s test environment
Advocate to customers on R&S manufacturing tools, creating test plans and test methods for WIFI/BT/UWB and 4G/5G testing
Support customers on site, mostly in USA but occasionally in Asia or Europe as per project demands
Be a part of global Engineering team, actively contribute with ideas on product and process improvements

Your qualifications

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
3+ years of relevant experience in RF & wireless communication including WiFi/BT/UWB/4G/5G
3+ years of experience in Python, object-oriented programming and software version control tools (SVN, GIT, etc), C++/Shell scripting a plus
3+ years of experience working with various wireless modem chipset vendor test tools. Qualcomm, Broadcom, MTK, etc
Experience with testing wireless devices, automation test solutions
Experience working with test equipment including radio communications testers, spectrum analyzers and signal generators
Understanding of test instrument & wireless modem chipset control APIs, including SCPI programming
Excellent verbal/written communication and customer interfacing skills
Domestic and International travel – up to 10-15%
To be considered, candidates must reside in the US and have valid US work authorization.

Interested?