Field Application Engineer / Technical Pre-Sales (Teradyne, San Jose, CA)

Originally posted 17 August 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role connects customer challenges with Teradyne solutions, partnering with Sales, Marketing, Applications, and Engineering to shape proposals and influence product direction.

What you'll do

• Build trusted technical relationships with customer engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities, articulate value, and help drive wins.
• Coordinate cross-functional experts to design and deliver customer solutions.
• Provide customer-driven input on positioning and product/engineering roadmaps.
• Share feedback with factory and engineering to improve roadmap and execution.

What you'll need

• BS+ in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5–8+ years in SoC validation/test (e.g., test development, DFT, or test-enablement tools).
• Experience with SoC ATE (Teradyne and/or competitor).
• Able to build relationships across customer and internal teams.
• Collaborate, prioritize, and drive closure.

Nice to have

• Competitive benchmarking experience.
• Silicon technology fundamentals and DFT.
• ATE and System-Level Test.
• Test program generation and debug.
• Power Management test for devices used in Automotive, Data Centers and Industrial applications.
• Manufacturing test.
• C#/.NET.

Skills: Field Product Specialist, customer challenges, Teradyne solutions, SoC validation/test, ATE