Senior Staff Application Engineer - Austin, United States
Originally posted 10 June 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 8 October 2026.
Multiphase DC/DC converters powering Intel, AMD, and SoC systems in the data center market.
About the role
The Senior Staff Application Engineer focuses on digital power management solutions within the Performance Computing Power Application engineering team. The position supports product definition, business planning, and technical enablement for multiphase VR systems powering data center computing platforms.
What you'll do
- Support technical marketing through global customer visits to promote products, uncover customer needs, and provide competitive technical analysis. - Produce technically detailed Product Requirements Documents to guide design specifications and collaborate with design engineering to resolve requirement conflicts. - Participate in FPGA-based design prototyping to verify critical features and functions against performance targets. - Guide staff in creating Applications Validation Plans to ensure corner cases are covered. - Develop IP addressing customer design challenges and interface with ASIC suppliers to ensure technical alignment. - Provide deep technical support and training to commercial and engineering stakeholders.
What you'll need
- MS in Engineering or technical equivalent. - Minimum of 10 years of experience in the power management industry. - Experience with firmware-enabled products and powering large-scale application-specific integrated circuits (CPU/GPU) in the data center market. - Experience with multiphase DC/DC converters powering Intel, AMD, or SoC systems. - Mixed-signal Integrated Circuit and system knowledge, along with experience in digitally enabled power management products. - Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters. - Proficiency with lab equipment including network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and waveform generators, plus lab testing automation experience.
Skills: power management industry, firmware-enabled products, multiphase DC/DC converters, mixed-signal Integrated Circuit, digitally enabled power management, control loop theory
This role has been open 171 days — well above the 74-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Power Management
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Open roles in category
204
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Median days open
74 d
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Median salary
$160k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (204 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 17 | 204 |
| Median days open | 24 d | 74 d (−50 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: power management industry, firmware-enabled products, multiphase DC/DC converters, mixed-signal Integrated Circuit, digitally enabled power management, control loop theory
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 50 open roles · median 124 d
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 79 d
- Texas Instruments · 29 open roles · median 40 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 40 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 17 open roles · median 24 d
- Nexperia · 10 open roles · median 68 d
How we counted: 204 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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.