Field Application Engineer - Automotive Embedded Software

About the role

Analog Devices is looking for an engineer to join its Automotive Field Applications team in Shanghai, with a primary focus on embedded software. The role suits candidates who can quickly take ownership of automotive embedded software and customer-facing engineering tasks, working on product applications, embedded software development, system bring-up, software integration, debugging and customer support.

Key responsibilities

• Support automotive embedded software development, integration, testing and debugging.
• Handle customer platform bring-up, firmware and driver integration, software configuration, product evaluation, issue reproduction and root-cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain embedded software demos, test programs, automation scripts, technical notes and validation reports.
• Lead technical discussions, demonstrations, workshops, customer visits and on-site troubleshooting.
• Work with Sales, Business Units and engineering teams to track technical questions and follow up on action items.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Automotive, Vehicle, Electrical, Electronic, Computer, Automation or Computer Science engineering, or a related discipline.
• Less than 2 years of relevant industry experience in automotive embedded software, automotive electronics, semiconductor applications or a related field.
• Proven hands-on capability in embedded software development, customer support and system-level debugging, able to resolve technical issues independently.
• Willingness to travel within China when needed.

Required skills

• Good foundation in embedded software and proficiency in C/C++.
• Knowledge of MCU, DSP or SoC architecture, RTOS or embedded Linux, firmware, device drivers, debugging or board bring-up is desirable.
• Experience in automotive audio, DSP, Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, I2S or TDM is a plus.
• Able to explain technical observations clearly in Chinese and communicate in written and spoken English.