renesaselectronics

Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

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At a Glance

Location
San Jose, California, United States
Employment
Full-time
Experience
5+ years
Posted
2026-03-17T17:21:11.766Z

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Linux

Domain Knowledge

  • Automotive
  • Cybersecurity
  • Education
  • Engineering

Requirements

Education: degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or similar field of studies.

Minimum 10 years of related work experience, especially including 5+ years of experience in automotive applications.

Working experience as Field or Application Engineer for Microcontroller and SoCs is preferred.

Understand automotive system technical requirements and propose optimized products and solutions.

Profound knowledge about semiconductors including SoC, MCU, Analog & Power products.

Experience with OS / Frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS).

Compensation & Benefits

The expected annual pay range for this position is $165K-$200K. This position is also eligible for commission pay.

Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘

To Make Our Lives Easier

.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

Responsibilities

As a System Staff / Senior System Staff Field Applications Engineer (FAE) you will play a major role in the expansion of our market-leading digital products (MCUs & SoCs), analog and power by providing outstanding application engineering support to our customers. You will also play a key role in the definition of the next generation of Renesas Automotive Products working closely to the customer engineering teams and to Renesas application engineering and marketing teams.

Responsibilities:

Drive the design-in activities of the complete product portfolio in automotive applications such as IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls etc. working with Automotive OEM customers.

Define new products in close cooperation with our innovative customers and our internal technical marketing and applications teams.

Act as a technical interface and consult our customers during the development of all automotive applications with particular focus on OEMs.

Derive customer system requirements and market trends to develop system value propositions together with internal interfaces (Product Marketers, Application Engineers, System Architects).