Senior Field Technical Leader, Consumer - CA, San Jose, Rio Robles, United States
$227,700 - $313,088 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
Focus on Analog Devices' Consumer Field Applications Engineering organization.
About the role
This role involves leading Field Applications Engineers who support Consumer customers across relevant technical disciplines. The position serves as a technical advisor to Sales leadership and an Applications leader, accountable for customer success, design activity, and revenue growth.
What you'll do
- Serve as senior technical advisor to Consumer Sales leadership, translating strategy and customer priorities.
- Synthesize system requirements, roadmaps, business priorities, and design challenges to guide team investment.
- Develop and propose new product ideas to Product Lines to fill customers' needs.
- Integrate activities of FAEs, specialists, and partner teams, aligning resources and removing obstacles.
- Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of FAEs and specialist contributors, establishing goals and development plans.
- Build and sustain relationships with customer technical leaders to understand strategic priorities and influence architecture decisions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in product, design, technical marketing, field applications engineering, or equivalent, including demonstrated success leading FAEs or specialist contributors.
- Proficiency in analog circuit design at the board and system levels.
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple concurrent projects effectively.
- Ability to communicate with and influence customers, senior Sales and Business Unit leaders, peer managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Exceptional expertise in a relevant technology area that can benefit the broader sales organization.
- Strong understanding of ADI’s sales processes and/or external sales best practices.
- Established record of building and sustaining relationships with customer technical leaders.
- Track record of timely hiring, talent development, retention, and succession planning.
- Ability to travel up to 20%, primarily within the United States.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Skills: Field Applications Engineers, customer engagement, architecture definition, analog circuit design, system requirements
This role has been open 11 days — well below the 66-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
66 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Analog Devices | All employers we track in this specialty (58 roles · 11 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 18 | 58 |
| Median days open | 29 d | 66 d (−37 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: Field Applications Engineers, customer engagement, architecture definition, analog circuit design, system requirements
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 67 d
- Analog Devices (this employer) · 18 open roles · median 28 d
- GlobalFoundries · 3 open roles · median 108 d
- Renesas Electronics · 3 open roles · median 16 d
- Arrow Electronics · 2 open roles · median 80 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 2 open roles · median 150 d
How we counted: 58 open Applications FAE (Analog Design) roles from 11 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Oct 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.