Principal Product Application Engineer (m/f/d) – Diodes & Transistors
Focus on Diodes & Transistors for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
Originally posted 5 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Principal Product Application Engineer, you will be responsible for the Application Strategy and Application Knowledge management for the Diodes & Transistors portfolio, providing technical support to customers.
What you'll do
- Qualify the value of Nexperia's products and quantify technical benefits.
- Take the lead for product requirements based on application insights.
- Represent Nexperia's application perspective in technical committees and standardization groups.
- Translate application expertise and customer insights into customer requirement specifications.
- Conduct product investigations and circuit analysis on an application level.
- Set up demo boards and represent the Diodes & Transistors group at trade fairs.
What you'll need
- University degree in electrical engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in the semiconductor industry or a related business.
- Proven experience within the Automotive/Industrial/Consumer Electronics environment.
- Development and Engineering experience, as well as hardware design know-how.
- Simulation and measurement know-how.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills in English.
Nice to have
- German language skills are a plus.
Skills: product application, customer requirements, demo boards, diodes & transistors, automotive electronics
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This role has been open 142 days — well above 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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| Metric | Nexperia | All employers we track in this specialty (143 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 143 |
| Median days open | 142 d | 95 d (+47 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: product application, customer requirements, demo boards, diodes & transistors, automotive electronics
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 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.