Applications Engineers play a key role in Teradyne's pre-sales, post-sales and product development processes. Because of the tremendous variety of activities involved and the diversity of skills you will need, this is an entry-level opportunity like no other you’ll find. Here are some of the reasons why:

• Today's ICs are increasingly integrating digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions all on one chip (often called "system on a chip"). As a result, the broad theoretical and laboratory experience you have gained will be used routinely and expanded over time, including your knowledge of oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, VNA's, and modulation analyzers.
• Controlling test instrumentation utilizes the skills you have built up in your labs as well as programming tools like "C", X windows, GUIs and Simulation.
• You will be involved in customer situations that require tact and a sensitivity to the economics of the industry, as well as the cultural issues of our worldwide business.
• You will be asked to stay on top of the rapid changes in IC technology, assess the ramifications of these changes, advocate solutions, and advise on new product development. The desire to work in teams and address groups with your public speaking skills will be encouraged and fostered.

What You Will Do as an Applications Engineer
Applications Engineers have the opportunity to experience a range of activities, which vary week to week and sometimes day to day. These include:

• Responsibility for pre-sale and/or post-sale support of company products/systems. 
• Devising innovative techniques for testing and characterizing leading edge VLSI and AVLSI devices such as Sonet, xDSL, Converters, RFCommunications, DSP, Wireless LAN, Ethernet, Memory and Microprocessors
• Writing and debugging test programs in C/Visual Basic to solve customer's test problem for mixed-signal, logic and memory applications
• Designing sophisticated analog and digital test interfaces to implement switching, filtering, signal conversion and other functions
• Identifying trends in customer IC development to help guide the development of new Teradyne ATE instrumentation
• Providing software/hardware development and consultation
• Building application solutions based on customer requirements, enhance the product performance to allow it to become the platform of choice (design-ins).
• At the senior level, providing recommendations/inputs into the next generation product development.
• Working with Sales and Marketing to develop sales and support strategies
• Providing technical support in sales presentations, product demonstrations and installation of company products to ensure that the system is functioning according to specifications.
• Developing competitive benchmarks to differentiate us from the competition
• Attending trade shows as a technical representative.
• Writing and presenting technical papers at our professional conference, the Teradyne Users Group
• Providing answers to customer inquiries concerning system software and applications
• Developing and teaching technical classes and seminars to customers and Teradyne engineers
• Providing technical expertise and value to customers
• Reproducing customer problems for software/hardware engineering to correct, and provide interim solutions to keep our customers' production flowing
• Traveling to customer or field office sites to support Design Engineers, Test Engineers, Product Engineers and Manufacturing Engineers. 
• Managing projects and overseeing the delivery of critical project milestones