Staff Field Application Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$140,000 - $180,000 USD yearly
Join Ferric to drive customer adoption of IVR products with AI semiconductor companies and hyperscalers.
About the role
As a Staff Field Application Engineer, you will drive customer adoption of Ferric’s IVR products with AI semiconductor companies, hyperscalers, ODMs, and advanced compute platform teams. You will guide IVR evaluations, system-level integration, and design-in cycles.
What you'll do
- Demonstrate Ferric’s integrated voltage regulator products, develop customer-facing collateral, and deliver expert-level IVR training.
- Support specification development, evaluation boards, lab bring-up, and integration reviews for customers adopting Ferric IVRs.
- Work closely with the Ferric Application Team and customers on power integrity analysis, transient response, packaging, and thermal challenges.
- Consolidate customer requirements from AI and hyperscale platforms into actionable feedback for Ferric’s IVR roadmap, packaging, power architecture, and application support strategy.
- Communicate IVR value propositions, power-density benefits, thermal advantages, and ROI metrics to technical leaders and customer executives.
What you'll need
- BSEE or MSEE.
- 5-10 years in Applications Engineering within the power electronics or semiconductor industry.
- Deep understanding of integrated voltage regulators, DC-DC power converters/regulators (Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, LDOs), power integrity, and mixed-signal IC testing.
- Proficiency with oscilloscopes, DMMs, SMUs, DC power supplies, electronic loads, and spectrum analyzers.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience supporting AI accelerators, hyperscale data center power architectures, advanced packaging, or high-current processor power delivery.
- Familiarity with IC package substrate design, parasitic extraction, and power integrity analysis.
- Knowledge of thermal management for power applications.
- Software proficiency in Cadence Virtuoso Suite, Cadence Allegro, HSPICE, LaTeX, and Linux.
Skills: customer adoption, IVR products, design-in cycles, power integrity analysis, thermal challenges
This role has been open 47 days — well below the 76-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
76 d
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Median salary
$160k
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| Metric | Ferric | All employers we track in this specialty (204 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 204 |
| Median days open | 47 d | 76 d (−29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: customer adoption, IVR products, design-in cycles, power integrity analysis, thermal challenges
Who's hiring in this category
- Monolithic Power Systems · 50 open roles · median 126 d
- Infineon Technologies · 35 open roles · median 81 d
- Texas Instruments · 28 open roles · median 42 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 42 d
- Renesas Electronics · 16 open roles · median 29 d
- Nexperia · 10 open roles · median 70 d
How we counted: 204 open Applications FAE (Power Management) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.