$122,900 - $255,200 USD yearly
About the role
The Principal Systems/Applications Engineer defines motor control and drive solutions for industrial, consumer, and automotive markets while supporting key global customers. The position focuses on motor control, drive products, and analog power within the Power Management division.
What you'll do
- Define motor control and drive products by translating customer and market requirements into product architecture, specifications, system requirements, and competitive analysis.
- Work closely with IC design teams to translate system-level requirements into internal IC and subsystem specifications.
- Collaborate with packaging teams to define pinouts, package concepts, and laminate/substrate stack-up designs accounting for electrical and thermal needs.
- Partner with test and characterization teams to establish characterization plans and production test solutions.
- Author technical collateral including datasheets, user guides, application notes, customer presentations, and white papers.
- Provide customer technical support, including system-level motor drive evaluation, design-in, bring-up, troubleshooting, and field team training.
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 (or equivalent education and experience) with demonstrated product definition and customer engagement.
- Hands-on experience with BLDC/PMSM motor drive systems, gate drivers, inverter power-stage operation, and associated protection functions.
- Experience with microcontrollers, specifically Arm Cortex-M devices, including ADCs, PWM timers, PLL, Flash, and interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, and LIN.
- Knowledge of field-oriented control and trapezoidal control algorithms, along with DC/DC and AC/DC power supply design.
- Hands-on experience with power IC packaging technologies, laminate/substrate design, PCB layout, AutoCAD, MATLAB, and QSPICE.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to engage with customers.
Skills: motor drive, gate drivers, BLDC, inverter, application notes, microcontroller
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This role has been open 11 days — well below the 85-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Power Management
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Open roles in category
207
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Median days open
85 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$155k
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| Metric | Skyworks | All employers we track in this specialty (207 roles · 30 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 207 |
| Median days open | 10 d | 85 d (−75 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Skills observed across this category: motor drive, gate drivers, BLDC, inverter, application notes, microcontroller
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 48 open roles · median 138 d
- Infineon Technologies · 37 open roles · median 89 d
- Texas Instruments · 24 open roles · median 54 d
- Renesas Electronics · 19 open roles · median 38 d
- Analog Devices · 16 open roles · median 56 d
- Nexperia · 8 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 207 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 30 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.