Field Applications Engineer (NCG) – Datacenter & Power Solutions - Austin, United States
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves supporting customer designs, validating and characterizing power solutions, troubleshooting technical issues, and deploying power management technologies for datacenter and power solutions.
What you'll do
- Partner with senior Field Applications Engineers to support customer programs from concept through production.
- Assist with validation, characterization, and optimization of digital multiphase power solutions for AI, cloud, server, and networking systems.
- Perform hands-on laboratory testing, including efficiency characterization, load transient testing, and power sequencing validation.
- Support customer board bring-up, power supply debug, and system-level validation.
- Participate in schematic reviews, component selection, and PCB layout reviews for high-current power delivery systems.
- Develop technical reports, characterization summaries, validation documentation, and customer-facing presentations.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Academic or project-based foundation in power electronics and analog circuit design, with exposure to control systems, electronic circuits, or embedded systems.
- Fundamental understanding of DC-DC converters, switching power supplies, feedback control loops, analog and mixed-signal circuits, and circuit analysis techniques.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems in a team environment.
- Willingness to travel periodically to customer sites and work in a laboratory environment.
Nice to have
- Internship, co-op, undergraduate research, or industry experience in power electronics, power supply design, hardware engineering, validation engineering, systems engineering, or semiconductor applications engineering.
- Experience designing, building, or debugging switching power supplies.
- Experience with simulation tools such as LTspice, PSpice, SIMPLIS, MATLAB/Simulink, or Cadence extraction tools.
- Experience with laboratory equipment, including oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, and digital multimeters.
- Experience with scripting or automation using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools.
- Design project, thesis, or research related to power conversion, voltage regulator design, battery management systems, motor control, power integrity, or renewable energy systems.
- Familiarity with PCB design, layout considerations, and power delivery networks.
Skills: field applications engineer, power solutions, DC-DC converters, board bring-up, customer support
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 71-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Power Management
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Open roles in category
202
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Median days open
71 d
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Median salary
$160k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (202 roles · 26 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 23 | 202 |
| Median days open | 17 d | 71 d (−54 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: field applications engineer, power solutions, DC-DC converters, board bring-up, customer support
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 50 open roles · median 108 d
- Infineon Technologies · 35 open roles · median 63 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 31 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 24 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 36 d
- Nexperia · 9 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 202 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 26 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.