Senior Manager Field Applications Engineer (FAE)
$180,000–$220,000 year
On-site · San Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Manager Field Applications Engineer (FAE) leads a high-performance team of power-supply FAEs supporting AI accelerators, servers, and networking platforms for strategic datacenter accounts. Balances hands-on ownership of customer power programs with leadership and development of the FAE organization, driving system-level power architecture engagements, architecture reviews, validation planning, debug, and executive updates. Responsible for mentoring FAEs, onboarding new hires, managing resources, and coordinating with Sales, Product Line, and Marketing to influence roadmaps and ensure high-quality customer engagement across AI datacenter workloads.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- Significant prior experience as a Field Applications Engineer with hands-on responsibility for power supply or power management products
- 8+ years of experience in power electronics, digital multiphase power delivery, server or AI platform power, or related hardware systems
- Deep technical expertise in power modules, digital multiphase controllers, VRMs, and high-current, low-voltage conversion for datacenter platforms
- Strong lab-based debug skills including use of oscilloscopes, current probes, electronic loads, and transient response analysis
- Demonstrated ability to interface directly with customers on complex power topics and drive issues to closure
- 2+ years of people leadership experience in a team lead, supervisory, managerial, or equivalent player/coach role
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to customer, executive, and internal audiences
- Experience supporting hyperscale datacenter customers such as cloud service providers or AI accelerator companies (preferred)
- Expertise in system-level power architecture for AI or ML accelerators, CPUs, or high-end networking platforms (preferred)
- Familiarity with PMBus, telemetry systems, and digitally controlled multiphase power solutions (preferred)
- Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority programs simultaneously in fast-moving customer environments (preferred)
- Demonstrated success developing early-career engineers and building high-performance technical teams (preferred)
- Strong cross-functional leadership experience working with Product Line, Marketing, Sales, or Systems Engineering organizations (preferred)
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