Principal Engineer Field Application Engineering
$148,500 - $204,200 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer Field Application Engineering, you will collaborate with customers to transform Infineon products into designs.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with the business line on training and collateral development.
- Support customers in pre-sales opportunity qualification, proof-of-concept, post-sales implementation, and support.
- Present product overview/technology demos and understand/influence customer architecture.
- Support customer hardware/software evaluations and hardware/software bring-up.
- Perform schematic and PCB layout reviews of customer hardware designs.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in electrical/computer engineering and more than 7 years of working experience in a relevant field.
- Experience in high-speed physical layer circuitry and embedded systems hardware debug.
- Experience with debugging EMC/EMI and PCB layout issues at ECU level.
- Familiarity with automotive communication protocols (Ethernet, etc.), automotive design principles and ARM Cortex M cores.
Skills: field application engineering, customer support, automotive communication protocols, schematic review, PCB layout review
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This role has been open 44 days — well below the 95-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
143
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Median days open
95 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$152k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Infineon Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (143 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 34 | 143 |
| Median days open | 78 d | 95 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: field application engineering, customer support, automotive communication protocols, schematic review, PCB layout review
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies (this employer) · 34 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 141 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 22 open roles · median 91 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 35 d
- Renesas Electronics · 10 open roles · median 103 d
- Microchip Technology · 8 open roles · median 229 d
How we counted: 143 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 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.