System/Field Application Engineer

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Hiring Company: MediaTek

One-liner: MediaTek is one of the world’s leading fabless semiconductor companies, building industry-leading SoCs that power smartphones, smart devices, automotive, and the next generation of edge AI computing.

Salary: $116K/yr - $203K/yr

Why Join Us:

• Generated over $19B in revenue in 2025, with flagship smartphone revenue growing over 40% YoY while powering 2B connected devices annually.

• Join one of MediaTek’s fastest-growing engineering teams, expected to double as the company accelerates its AI computing strategy.

• Play a key role in MediaTek’s transformation into an AI computing platform company, spanning flagship mobile, edge AI, AI PCs, automotive, and AI silicon.

• Solve some of the industry’s toughest hardware-software co-design challenges for next-generation AI computing and flagship mobile platforms.

Role Responsibilities

• Support customer system bring-up, including hardware, firmware, and SDK integration

• Assist with system validation, lab testing, and post-silicon characterization

• Collect and analyze lab data to evaluate system robustness and operating margins

• Perform basic HSIO testing (signal integrity checks, eye diagrams, BER)

• Help debug customer issues across HW/FW/SDK boundaries and support root-cause analysis

• Work with firmware teams to validate features, configurations, and system behavior

• Document issues and validation results clearly and concisely

• Collaborate with design, firmware, validation, and marketing teams to support customers

Qualifications

Required

• 1–5 years of experience in system validation, hardware bring-up, or technical customer support

• Basic understanding of system hardware and firmware interaction

• Familiarity with high-speed interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, SerDes, I2C, and JTAG

• Experience working with firmware or SDKs for system configuration, debug, or validation

• Hands-on experience with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies)

• Good communication skills and ability to work directly with customers

Preferred

• Exposure to HBM, UCIe, or other high-speed memory/interconnect technologies

• Basic knowledge of signal integrity and power integrity

• Experience debugging issues involving drivers, firmware, or SDK APIs

• Scripting or data analysis experience (Python, MATLAB)

• Prior experience in a System Application Engineer or FAE role

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