Senior Staff Application Engineer - San Jose, United States
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
Work on digital power management solutions for large scale application-specific integrated circuits.
About the role
This role involves working on digital power management solutions, combining technical understanding of multiphase VR systems, Renesas products, and customer systems. The position requires significant technical experience due to the embedded SOC nature of the products, focusing on powering large scale application-specific integrated circuits (CPU/GPU) in the data center market.
What you'll do
- Support technical marketing through global customer visits to promote products and uncover critical customer needs.
- Provide analysis demonstrating technical merit of Renesas solutions versus competing solutions to support marketing business plan activities.
- Produce technically detailed Product Requirements Documents to support creation of design specifications.
- Participate in FPGA based design prototyping to verify key features and functions meet expectations.
- Guide staff in creation of Applications Validation Plans by ensuring corner cases are covered.
- Provide deep technical support and training to advance commercial success.
What you'll need
- MS in Engineering or technical equivalent.
- Minimum of 10 years 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/SoC systems.
- Mixed-signal Integrated Circuit/System knowledge/experience.
- Experience with 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.
- Experience with automation of lab testing.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 71-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Power Management
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Open roles in category
202
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Median days open
71 d
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Median salary
$160k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (202 roles · 26 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 23 | 202 |
| Median days open | 17 d | 71 d (−54 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 50 open roles · median 108 d
- Infineon Technologies · 35 open roles · median 63 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 31 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 24 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 36 d
- Nexperia · 9 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 202 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 26 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.