Field Applications Engineer - Associate - Boise, ID - Main Site, United States

Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves overseeing technical tasks for product launches, including product sample deployments, lifecycle management, and addressing customer inquiries. The Field Applications Engineer - Associate works within a field engineering team and emphasizes an automation-first approach.

What you'll do

• Coordinate technical product samples from configuration through international shipment tracking to customer validation.
• Serve as a primary contact for technical product inquiries, resolving standard questions and escalating complex engineering issues.
• Maintain and update technical product documentation, qualification statuses, and project data within internal systems and customer-facing web portals.
• Orchestrate communication and execution of product change notices and lifecycle events to inform customers of transitions and last-time-buy windows.
• Drive and track the status of technical failure analyses and return authorizations.
• Provide operational logistics support and arrange technical materials for Field Application Engineers during active design cycles and qualifications.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in an engineering or science field (e.g., Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science).
• 3 or more years of professional experience in the semiconductor industry or a related field; recent graduates with relevant co-op or internship experience may qualify.
• General knowledge of hardware engineering workflows.
• High technical literacy with the capacity to continuously adapt to frequently changing technology, product roadmaps, and lifecycle dates.
• Basic understanding of memory or storage technologies and related platform technologies (e.g., CPU, GPU, NPU, PMIC).
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical approach and ability to proactively identify process bottlenecks for automation or workflow improvement.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated skill in advancing technical partner enablement by overseeing worldwide training programs, certification efforts, and engineering support platforms.
• Previous experience in an engineering role involving hardware system fixing and board-level building principles.
• Proven experience navigating semiconductor supply requirements and technical qualification nuances across diverse business segments (e.g., Data Center, AI, Mobile, Automotive).
• Experience identifying process bottlenecks and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve team productivity.

Skills: Field Applications Engineer, technical product samples, customer validation, technical product inquiries, memory or storage technologies