Staff Engineer, Field Applications - CA, San Jose, Rio Robles, United States
$163,530 - $224,854 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
Support a major automotive technology customer.
About the role
This role provides strategic technical leadership as a Staff Field Applications Engineer, serving as a trusted technical advisor for customer system requirements with Analog Devices technologies.
What you'll do
- Serve as the lead FAE and system-level technical authority for a strategic automotive customer, guiding engagements from concept through production.
- Build trusted relationships with customer engineering teams and translate system requirements into differentiated Analog Devices solutions.
- Influence architecture and design decisions through technical consultation, solution proposals, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept development.
- Provide hands-on design-in support, including design reviews, simulation, laboratory evaluation, debugging, validation, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate cross-functional Analog Devices resources and communicate customer requirements, market trends, competitive insights, and product gaps to internal stakeholders.
- Partner with product teams to influence roadmaps and deliver technical presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and training.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related discipline.
- 8 or more years of relevant field applications, product applications, system design, semiconductor, or customer-facing engineering experience.
- Proven success leading strategic customer engagements from architecture through production.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and board- or system-level design experience.
- Hands-on experience with laboratory measurement, characterization, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to translate customer requirements into solution strategies and execution plans.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience supporting automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, semiconductor customers, or advanced mobility platforms.
- System expertise in mixed-signal signal chains, power management, battery management, sensing, embedded systems, high-speed interfaces, connectivity, timing, or isolation.
- Knowledge of vehicle architectures, in-vehicle networking, software-defined vehicles, ADAS, electrification, or functional safety.
- Experience with embedded development, system debugging, prototypes, evaluation platforms, or reference designs.
- Familiarity with automotive development, qualification, and product lifecycle requirements.
Skills: Field Applications Engineer, automotive technology customer, design-in support, system-level technical authority, customer architecture
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 94-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
150
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Median days open
94 d
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Median salary
$152k
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| Metric | Analog Devices | All employers we track in this specialty (150 roles · 26 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 150 |
| Median days open | 17 d | 94 d (−77 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: Field Applications Engineer, automotive technology customer, design-in support, system-level technical authority, customer architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 80 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 25 open roles · median 91 d
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- Microchip Technology · 10 open roles · median 201 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 24 d
How we counted: 150 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) 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.