Senior Principal Field Application Engineer
Remote · United States or San Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Principal Field Application Engineer responsible for driving design wins and new product adoption within target accounts in the Americas for Nexperia’s automotive and industrial segments (BEV, EV charging, BESS, solar). Core duties include leading customer visits for technical presentations and demonstrations, synthesizing customer and competitive insights to shape product roadmaps, managing design-in campaigns and funnel progression, promoting product value against competition, owning block-diagram processes for full system sell, coordinating with product teams, and educating Field Sales Engineers on new technologies and features. The role requires strong communication, cross-functional collaboration with sales, engineering, and management, and travel with a focus on the west coast US and occasional international assignments. Nexperia emphasizes equal opportunity employment and inclusive recruitment practices.
Required Qualifications
- Education: BSEE. MSEE preferred.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in electrification design in EV and/or industrial applications.
- Technical experience related to power applications: Electrification, ECUs, BCMs and/or power supplies/management.
- Strong communication and presentation skills to drive communication with relevant stakeholders.
- In-depth understanding of the Americas semiconductor market including reference design influence and transnational accounts.
- Good knowledge of discrete semiconductors including MOSFETs, ESD protection and logic, analog and power management ICs.
- Ability to execute strategies involving multiple stakeholders; entrepreneurial thinking; result oriented; customer focused.
- Willingness to travel, primarily west coast US (10%) and occasionally internationally.
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