Principal Systems/Applications Engineer - Richardson, TX, United States
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role involves defining new Motor Control and Drive solutions for industrial, consumer, and automotive markets, and supporting key global customers.
What you'll do
- Define motor control and drive products, translating customer and market needs into product architecture, specifications, system requirements, and feature definitions.
- Collaborate with IC design teams to translate system-level and product requirements into internal IC and subsystem specifications.
- Work with the packaging team to define product pinouts and develop package concepts and preliminary drawings, considering system, electrical, thermal, mechanical, and customer application requirements.
- Generate and maintain product documentation and technical collateral, including datasheets, user guides, application notes, and customer presentations.
- Provide technical support and training to key customers, field application engineers, and sales teams, covering product evaluation, design-in, system bring-up, and troubleshooting.
- Support customers with existing products by addressing application and system-level issues, identifying product limitations, and incorporating learnings into future product improvements and new product definitions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Product definition and customer engagement experience with a track record of translating customer and market requirements into product architecture, features, and specifications.
- Experience with power IC packaging technologies, including package concept development, pinout definition, and electrical and thermal considerations.
- Hands-on experience with package laminate/substrate design, including layer stack-up, routing, and electrical and thermal considerations.
- Experience with BLDC/PMSM motor drive systems for industrial, automotive, and consumer applications.
- Experience with DC/DC and AC/DC power supply design.
- Deep understanding of gate drivers, inverter power-stage operation, and associated protection functions.
- Familiarity with field-oriented control and trapezoidal control algorithms for BLDC/PMSM motors.
- Experience with microcontrollers, especially Arm Cortex-M devices, including ADCs, PWM timers, PLL and clocking, Flash, and communication interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN and LIN.
- Experience with PCB design and layout, CAD tools such as AutoCAD, and circuit/system simulation tools such as MATLAB and QSPICE.
- Demonstrated experience developing technical documentation for semiconductor products, including datasheets, user guides, and application notes.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally to engage with customers.
Skills: customer engagement, product definition, technical support, design-in, motor control, power IC packaging
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
188
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Median days open
71 d
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Median salary
$168k
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| Metric | QORVO | All employers we track in this specialty (188 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 188 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 71 d (−71 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Skills observed across this category: customer engagement, product definition, technical support, design-in, motor control, power IC packaging
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 51 open roles · median 90 d
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 62 d
- Texas Instruments · 19 open roles · median 28 d
- Renesas Electronics · 17 open roles · median 39 d
- Analog Devices · 13 open roles · median 25 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 92 d
How we counted: 188 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Sept 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.