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Staff Field Applications Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
125 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Field Applications Engineer
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• Partner with Sales Account Managers to secure design wins and support revenue growth. • Qualify customer opportunities and assess the suitability of SiC power devices for their applications. • Provide pre‑sales technical support to demonstrate system‑level benefits and communicate the value of SiC solutions. • Support customers throughout the entire design cycle—from samples and prototypes to pilot, pre‑production, and full production—including hardware debug and system‑level guidance. • Support quality team on customer claims to determine root causes of field application failures. • Use strong technical knowledge to address field requests with minimal support from factory engineering. • Manage and train distribution FAEs to ensure consistent technical capability across the channel. • Maintain effective communication with business unit teams to address customer technical requests. • Deliver customer feedback and application insights to Marketing to support new product development. • Leverage our Munich Lab to identify best practices for SiC component usage and generate new technical knowledge.
Job Requirements
- MSc in Electrical or Electronic Engineering (or equivalent), with 3–5 years of experience as a power semiconductor FAE, application engineer, or R&D engineer in power electronics for applications above 1 kW.
- Strong technical communication skills, capable of interacting with customer development and application engineers at both system and component levels.
- Solid understanding of power electronics topologies, including both hard‑ and soft‑switching architectures.
- Comfortable working with high‑voltage semiconductor devices.
- Experience in circuit design, component selection, loss calculations, layout, and magnetic design; automotive experience is a plus.
- Fundamental understanding of semiconductor devices, including diodes, BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, and IGBTs.
- Strong analytical mindset and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Familiarity with industrial standards such as JEDEC, AEC‑Q, UL, and EMI/EMC.
- Willingness to travel frequently for on‑site customer support.
- Proficiency in MS Office and good working knowledge of LTspice and/or PLECS.
- Fluent in English and an additional relevant language.
- Able to work independently with strong proactivity and minimal supervision.
Benefits
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