Senior Manager Field Application Engineering - Campbell, California, United States
$180,000 - $200,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading Field Application Engineering teams supporting interconnect IP for SoCs and chiplets, influencing on-chip interconnect and coherent interconnect architectures.
What you'll do
- Lead and manage Field Application Engineering teams supporting non-coherent and cache-coherent interconnect, Last Level Cache IP.
- Drive leadership through mentoring, resource planning, and regional pre- and post-sales support.
- Define and execute customer engagements across pre-sales, design-in, verification, and production to promote account growth and reduce late-stage escalations.
- Deliver technical keynotes, application notes, and product demos at conferences.
- Influence Product Roadmaps with customer requirements and architecture.
What you'll need
- 5-10 years of front-end digital SoC design from RTL to synthesis.
- Strong understanding of System-on-Chip architecture and semiconductor design flows.
- Good knowledge of the AMBA AXI 3 & 4 protocol, PCIe, CXL, Die to Die and Chip to Chip interfaces.
- Deep understanding of NoC, AMBA (AXI, ACE, AHB), OCP, system level deadlocks, SoC architecture, Verification and Emulation methodologies, ASIC design and implementation flows.
- Application and use of AI and Agentic AI workflows used in SoC design.
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with the ARM and RISC-V ecosystem (CPU, interfaces, fabrics).
- Understanding of cache coherency and on-chip networks.
- Knowledge of High-Performance Compute and AI Hardware Architectures.
- Knowledge of Place and Route, Timing closure, SystemC, HDL Simulation, Python, TCL, UNIX/Linux.
Skills: Field Application Engineering, customer engagements, SoC architecture, interconnect, AI Hardware Architectures
This role has been open 3 days — well below the 53-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
43
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$207k
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| Metric | Arteris | All employers we track in this specialty (43 roles · 11 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 43 |
| Median days open | 3 d | 53 d (−50 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $207k |
Skills observed across this category: Field Application Engineering, customer engagements, SoC architecture, interconnect, AI Hardware Architectures
Who's hiring in this category
- GlobalFoundries · 10 open roles · median 82 d
- Baya Systems · 9 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 5 open roles · median 27 d
- Arm Holdings · 4 open roles · median 106 d
- NVIDIA · 4 open roles · median 35 d
- AMD · 3 open roles · median 23 d
How we counted: 43 open Applications FAE (SOC Architecture) roles from 11 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.