Sales FAE
About the role
Within the Field Application Business Development team, you will act as the primary technical interface to customers and sales, supporting the technical promotion and design-in of passive components and discrete semiconductors. You will connect sales, customer technical requirements, and internal divisions to develop conceptual solution proposals and evaluate customer applications.
What you'll do
- Provide technical clarification of customer applications and develop conceptual solution proposals across active and passive components.
- Advise customer developers on technical questions and determine component selections for specific application design-ins.
- Evaluate and qualify customer solutions in the lab using equipment such as DVMs, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.
- Systematically collect customer requirements and interface with internal R&D, Marketing, and Sales divisions to forward technical tasks and new product ideas.
- Provide divisions with new product proposals based on application knowledge and market research.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering minimum.
- Experience with electronic components regarding function, structure, and application.
- Experience in board-level design and evaluation.
- Experience in board layout design.
- Proficiency in using lab equipment such as DVMs, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.
- Willingness to travel.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in electrical engineering.
Skills: Sales FAE, technical clarification, customer application, design-in, application knowledge
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This role has been open 187 days — well above the 70-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Analog Design
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Open roles in category
58
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Median days open
70 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
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| Metric | Vishay Intertechnology | All employers we track in this specialty (58 roles · 12 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 58 |
| Median days open | 209 d | 70 d (+139 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: Sales FAE, technical clarification, customer application, design-in, application knowledge
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 24 open roles · median 66 d
- Analog Devices · 16 open roles · median 49 d
- GlobalFoundries · 3 open roles · median 137 d
- Renesas Electronics · 3 open roles · median 39 d
- Arrow Electronics · 2 open roles · median 109 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 2 open roles · median 179 d
How we counted: 58 open Applications FAE (Analog Design) roles from 12 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.