Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer - Digital
Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves providing application engineering support for digital products (MCUs & SoCs) within automotive applications.
What you'll do
- Drive design-in activities for the product portfolio in automotive applications such as IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls.
- Act as a technical interface and consult customers during the development of automotive applications.
- Derive customer system requirements and market trends to develop system value propositions.
- Manage projects with Sales and Marketing to achieve design-in targets for the automotive product portfolio.
- Establish and maintain relationships with customer engineering departments.
- Lead technical discussions with System Architects and Application Engineering experts to define application roadmaps and product technical requirements.
What you'll need
- Electrical / Electronic Engineering or similar field of studies.
- Minimum 8 years of related work experience, with 3+ years in automotive applications.
- Understanding of automotive system technical requirements.
- Profound knowledge about semiconductors including SoC, MCU, Analog & Power products.
- Experience with OS / Frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS).
- Proficient in multi-threaded programming and middleware solution development in different OS environments.
- Working knowledge on Automotive Functional Safety and Cybersecurity concepts.
- Proficient in Power and Thermal management at system level.
- Experience in Vehicle Architecture / Networks design.
- Hands-on system bring-up, testing, and debugging skills.
- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other standard lab equipment.
Nice to have
- Working experience as Field or Application Engineer for Microcontroller and SoCs.
Skills: automotive applications, design-in activities, technical interface, system requirements, customer engineering
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This role has been open 41 days — well below the 95-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
143
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Median days open
95 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$152k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (143 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 143 |
| Median days open | 102 d | 95 d (+7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: automotive applications, design-in activities, technical interface, system requirements, customer engineering
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 141 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 22 open roles · median 91 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 35 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 10 open roles · median 103 d
- Microchip Technology · 8 open roles · median 229 d
How we counted: 143 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 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.