Applications Engineer - Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role provides direct engineering support to customers and field personnel across the full product lifecycle for mixed-signal audio, industrial, and automotive devices.
What you'll do
- Provide direct engineering support for customers and field personnel.
- Lead customer design-in activities, including system bring-up, debugging, and production issue resolution.
- Lead root-cause analysis of complex system-level customer issues across hardware, firmware, and silicon.
- Develop application notes, white papers, demo-board, and reference-design manuals.
- Develop demonstration platforms and reference designs, using PCB schematic tools.
- Develop firmware and RTL modules for customer reference and demonstration.
- Develop advanced Python code to demonstrate product operation and capabilities.
- Execute customer-application focused data collection and circuit analysis.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical / Electronics Engineering and experience in the semiconductor industry.
- Aptitude in system understanding of I2C, SPI, USB, UART, I2S, and high speed control/data bus examples.
- Experience in component selection, schematic entry, and knowledge of PCB layout design.
- Proficiency in scripting/programming language such as Verilog, C, Python, MATLAB or similar.
- Proficiency in version control methods and version control systems such as Git.
- Hands-on experience in lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, audio analyzers, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers.
Nice to have
- Mixed-signal hardware background.
- Audio-related background.
Skills: customer support, design-in, system bring-up, reference design, firmware, PCB schematic
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 80-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Mixed Signal
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Open roles in category
48
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (48 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 48 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 80 d (−80 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: customer support, design-in, system bring-up, reference design, firmware, PCB schematic
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 8 open roles · median 22 d
- Analog Devices · 7 open roles · median 7 d
- Arrow Electronics · 6 open roles · median 91 d
- Microchip Technology · 6 open roles · median 85 d
- Infineon Technologies · 4 open roles · median 98 d
- Omni Design Technologies · 4 open roles · median 91 d
How we counted: 48 open Applications FAE (Mixed Signal) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.