Senior Staff Engineer Applications - Austin, TX, USA
$135,900 - $186,900 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 May 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 4 September 2026.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Engineer Applications on the Customer Collaboration and Technical Marketing team, you will support customers and field teams in integrating power management solutions. The role focuses on DC-DC buck regulators, digital multi-phase controllers, integrated power stages, and power modules for AI and CPU silicon platforms.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with AI and CPU silicon suppliers to design smaller, more efficient DC-DC buck regulators. - Support FAEs and customers through design-in support, system bring up and validation, and technical issue resolution. - Provide application and design support for digital multi-phase controllers, integrated power stages, and power modules. - Design, test, and validate new product evaluation boards and VR solutions for customer applications. - Create go-to-market evaluation boards, reference design schematics, application notes, and design tools. - Support customer design-in activities including schematic and layout reviews, board bring-up, system-level validation, and debugging.
What you'll need
- An MSEE with 1-3 years of experience in Power Electronics, or a BSEE with 10+ years of experience. - Strong knowledge of DC/DC power conversion topologies, power MOSFET characteristics, magnetics, and control loop designs. - Hands-on experience designing DC/DC switching power supplies (Low Voltage below 60V). - Lab skills including the use of digital oscilloscopes, function generators, and network analyzers. - Proficiency in designing lab automation routines using Python, along with experience using schematic entry, circuit simulation, and PCB layout tools. - Ability to travel approximately 10% to work with AI and CPU silicon suppliers.
Skills: DC-DC buck regulators, design-in support, system bring up, digital multi-phase controllers, power stages, evaluation boards
This role has been open 162 days — well above the 73-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Power Management
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Open roles in category
205
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Median days open
73 d
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Median salary
$160k
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| Metric | Infineon Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (205 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 33 | 205 |
| Median days open | 79 d | 73 d (+6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: DC-DC buck regulators, design-in support, system bring up, digital multi-phase controllers, power stages, evaluation boards
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 50 open roles · median 123 d
- Infineon Technologies (this employer) · 33 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 29 open roles · median 39 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 39 d
- Renesas Electronics · 17 open roles · median 23 d
- Nexperia · 10 open roles · median 67 d
How we counted: 205 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.