Customer Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$98,400 USD yearly
Originally posted 27 January 2026 by the employer.
Support customer design-in and lab validation for MEMS precision timing solutions, including oscillators, PLLs, and clock distribution networks.
About the role
As a Customer Engineer, you will act as a key technical liaison between product development teams and customers across the US, providing lab support to ensure the integration, performance, and application of semiconductor solutions. The role focuses on precision timing solutions, including oscillators, PLLs, and clock distribution.
What you'll do
- Provide technical support and solutions to customers across pre-sales and post-sales stages. - Analyze customer requirements and recommend semiconductor products or systems, supporting design-in efforts across embedded systems, power electronics, and RF. - Validate customer-facing solutions in the lab and conduct root cause analysis and technical problem solving. - Develop and deliver product presentations, technical documentation, and customer training. - Participate in field trials, customer visits, and technical workshops across the region. - Collaborate with product marketing on product roadmap synthesis and technical requirements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field. - 5+ years of experience in semiconductor applications, customer support, or product engineering. - Working knowledge of analog/digital electronics, integrated circuit technology, oscillators, PLLs, clock distribution, and embedded systems. - Hands-on experience with lab test equipment, including spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and phase noise analyzers. - Hands-on experience with embedded C and Python scripting for lab automation. - Proven track record debugging hardware and software systems in customer-facing scenarios.
Skills: embedded systems, precise time solutions, power electronics, RF, PLL, oscillators
This role has been open 215 days — well above the 95-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Mixed Signal
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Open roles in category
53
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Median days open
95 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | SiTime | All employers we track in this specialty (53 roles · 16 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 53 |
| Median days open | 215 d | 95 d (+120 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: embedded systems, precise time solutions, power electronics, RF, PLL, oscillators
Who's hiring in this category
- Analog Devices · 11 open roles · median 40 d
- Texas Instruments · 9 open roles · median 44 d
- Microchip Technology · 6 open roles · median 125 d
- Arrow Electronics · 4 open roles · median 99 d
- Infineon Technologies · 4 open roles · median 138 d
- Omni Design Technologies · 4 open roles · median 131 d
How we counted: 53 open Applications FAE (Mixed Signal) roles from 16 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 Oct 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.