Job Description

Job Title:

Applications Engineer


Company: Phlux Technology Ltd


Location: Sheffield, UK


Type: Full-Time

Reports to:

VP (Product) Marketing

The Company:

Phlux is an award-winning tech start-up based in Sheffield, UK. The company is a "Fabless Photonics Chip Company" founded in 2020 as a spin-out from the University of Sheffield. Phlux designs and supplies the world's highest performing SWIR detectors and receivers based on our groundbreaking material development that will be at the heart of advanced driver safety features using LIDAR, ultra-fast low latency communication networks, and seeing the invisible with 3D imaging.


Phlux is a revenue-generating company with a team of 20 skilled professionals spanning operations, sales and marketing, engineering, semiconductor devices, and finance.


Phlux has recently closed a 9M ($12M) Series A funding round is now scaling rapidly and seeking passionate individuals to join our innovative team. Our goal is to create the largest and best APD Detector team in the world for optical sensing and communications applications.

The Role:

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Applications Engineer to join our experienced and advanced start-up team. The successful candidate will be an experienced Applications Engineer or Engineer with a highly technical and detailed approach to customer & product applications. Able to foster tight partnerships with design engineering, marketing, and sales teams and have proven experience within the semiconductor and photonics sector. The successful candidate will be responsible for customer Applications Support of Phlux's APD detector products. Position to be based in our Sheffield office and lab.


The applicant should have excellent organisational and communication skills and be comfortable working independently and as part of a team of engineers, marketing, sales, operations and management.

Responsibilities:

Work with Sales, FAE and factory applications team to solve and resolve customers' technical queries


Technical support of existing Phlux products


Introduce and support new Phlux products and engage in design-in/win opportunities and tracking


Conduct lab measurements and experiments as required


Development of applications notes, product training material and sales collateral in conjunction with marketing


Develop Reference Design Kits and Evaluation Boards; responsibility for customer delivery of eval kits


Attend trade shows and travel to customer facilities to demonstrate products/RDKs and support customers


Become a technical product expert for Phlux's range of optical detector 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 MS Office as primary tools for presentation and visualisation data, semiconductor modelling and simulation tools, circuit simulation where required

Cross-Functional Teamwork:

Engage with sales, FAEs, Factory Applications, Marketing & Engineering/Devlp.

Education:

BSc/BEng/Masters/PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Optoelectronics or Physics

Experience:

5+ years of experience in the Photonics/Semiconductor &/or Data/Telecommunications sectors

Communication:

Customer driven attitude and with commercial/market awareness and experience within an interrupt driven role; 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 an 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

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.