$122,900 - $255,200 USD yearly
About the role
The Principal Applications Engineer supports customers with recommending, troubleshooting, and implementing RF and microwave products into customer systems. The role focuses on active and passive products including GaN and GaAs MMIC and discrete solutions for Radar, EW, Communication, and Space applications.
What you'll do
- Provide technical support for RF and microwave active and passive products across Defense and Aerospace applications.
- Evaluate customer requirements, recommend appropriate solutions, and assist with design-in for system integration.
- Troubleshoot customer system implementations and resolve issues in customer designs.
- Collaborate with design teams and product line managers to create and maintain datasheets, application notes, evaluation boards, and customer training materials.
- Support new product introductions by verifying customer requirements and conducting competitive technical analysis and benchmarking.
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical Engineering degree.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the RF/Microwave industry as an Applications or Design Engineer.
- Working knowledge of GaN and GaAs RF/Microwave semiconductors for discrete and MMIC power amplifiers, LNA, phase shifters, limiters, converters, switches, and filters.
- Working knowledge of spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzer, oscilloscopes, load pull, and related test equipment.
- Willingness and ability for occasional travel.
Nice to have
- MS degree with a focus on RF/Microwave technology.
- Design Engineering experience.
- Experience with linear/nonlinear simulation using ADS or MWO CAD software.
Skills: Applications Engineer, RF/Microwave, GaN, GaAs, MMIC, Design-in
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This role has been open 12 days — well below the 45-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
77
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Median days open
45 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$155k
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| Metric | Skyworks | All employers we track in this specialty (77 roles · 19 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 77 |
| Median days open | 12 d | 45 d (−33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Skills observed across this category: Applications Engineer, RF/Microwave, GaN, GaAs, MMIC, Design-in
Who's hiring in this category
- Keysight Technologies · 26 open roles · median 47 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 26 d
- Skyworks (this employer) · 8 open roles · median 12 d
- Texas Instruments · 6 open roles · median 79 d
- MACOM · 4 open roles · median 11 d
- Silicon Labs · 4 open roles · median 114 d
How we counted: 77 open Applications FAE (RF Frontend) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 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.