Field Applications Engineer - Redwood City, California, United States
$160,000 - $195,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role supports customers from early product evaluation through integration, launch, and production across Syntiant’s edge AI, processor, sensor, and software solutions.
What you'll do
- Serve as a primary technical contact for customers, sales teams, distributors, product management, and engineering. - Support customer engagements from product discovery and evaluation through design-in, launch, and production. - Lead product demonstrations, technical workshops, customer training, and application reviews. - Recommend solutions based on customer requirements, performance needs, power goals, and system constraints. - Troubleshoot hardware, software, and system-level issues with customers and internal teams. - Create technical documentation, training materials, demo content, and customer-facing resources.
What you'll need
- 2+ years of relevant experience in field applications, applications engineering, systems engineering, embedded product support, technical product management, or a similar customer-facing technical role. - Experience supporting customer evaluations, product demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, design-ins, launches, and production ramps. - Embedded systems background with experience across processors, microcontrollers, sensors, audio, connectivity, or related semiconductor technologies. - Working knowledge of embedded software, firmware, drivers, development kits, operating systems, and customer prototype environments. - Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot hardware, software, and system-level issues and drive timely resolution.
Nice to have
- Experience with edge AI, machine learning deployment, low-power systems, acoustic applications, or competitive product analysis.
Skills: technical contact, customer engagements, design-in, product demonstrations, troubleshoot hardware, edge AI
This role has been open 96 days — well above the 48-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
101
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Syntiant | All employers we track in this specialty (101 roles · 19 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 101 |
| Median days open | 96 d | 48 d (+48 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: technical contact, customer engagements, design-in, product demonstrations, troubleshoot hardware, edge AI
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 59 open roles · median 48 d
- AMD · 11 open roles · median 62 d
- Tenstorrent · 9 open roles · median 33 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 53 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 18 d
- Microchip Technology · 2 open roles · median 32 d
How we counted: 101 open Applications FAE (AI ML Hardware) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 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.