Senior Field Applications Engineer

Job Description

The Senior Field Applications Engineer is a strategic technical leader responsible for driving high-impact engagements across key Broad Market applications, with a focus on complex system-level design, high-power applications, and strategic customer penetration.

This role plays a critical part in solution sell leadership, technical differentiation, and new product definition, particularly in high-growth areas such as electrification, energy, and advanced industrial systems.

Location: Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago

Responsibilities

• Lead demand creation and strategic technical engagement with key Broad Market customers, partners, R&D leaders, and system architects.
• Own technical strategy, customer engagement, and design-win execution across complex, high-value applications.
• Partner closely with FSE, BU, Marketing, and Sales leadership to align customer strategy, solution selling priorities, and market themes.
• Drive design-win creation, pipeline expansion, and opportunity qualification across assigned accounts and territories.
• Provide voice-of-customer insights to influence product roadmap, NPI direction, system-level requirements, and competitive positioning.
• Collaborate globally with engineering and product teams across the Americas, Europe, and Asia to support customer and business priorities.
• Enable distribution and channel partners through training, technical engagement, repeatable solution frameworks, and reference designs.
• Support system-level application design, validation, troubleshooting, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Provide deep expertise in power, analog, mixed-signal, high-power semiconductor applications, and emerging markets such as energy grid, industrial automation, robotics, and space.
• Mentor junior FAEs, share best practices, and build regional technical capability to scale solution-selling impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FAE, Applications Engineering, or system design
• Strong expertise in high-power semiconductor applications and system integration
• Experience in system-level customer support (design review, validation, troubleshooting)
• Demonstrated success in driving design wins and influencing product direction
• Excellent communication, presentation, and customer engagement skills

About Us

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world's most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

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About the Team

We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work.

onsemi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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