Field Application Engineer

Platform Recruitment; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + commission

Stock options

Exposure to Tier 1 CSPs

Job summary

Platform Recruitment's client, a high-growth semiconductor company, is seeking a Field Application Engineer to own West Coast field applications for Interconnect portfolio (PCIe retimers, PCIe switches, active cables). This hands-on, customer-facing role will be the technical face from evaluation to design-in and production, with time in the San Jose lab.

Based in San Jose / Bay Area, regular lab work and travel across the West Coast are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years in a customer-facing engineering role in semiconductors, hardware, or related industry.
• Hands-on lab experience: board bring-up, hardware debug, bench equipment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first level of technical contact for Interconnect customers across the West Coast.
• Drive design-in activity from evaluation through bring-up, debug, qualification, and volume production.
• Work hands-on in the San Jose lab: server platforms setup, flashing modules, reproducing issues, running experiments.
• Build, configure, and run product demos for trade shows and customer visits.
• Deliver product training and technical presentations to customer engineering teams and internal staff.
• Collaborate with AE, engineering, and vendors to resolve customer issues and root-cause field failures.
• Conduct onsite customer visits as the go-to technical person for accounts.
• Feed customer requirements back into product roadmap.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Job description

Our client, a high-growth semiconductor company focused on high-speed interconnect and AI infrastructure solutions, is seeking a Field Application Engineer to own West Coast field application engineering for their Interconnect portfolio: PCIe retimers, PCIe switches, and active cables.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role with real commercial impact. You will be the primary technical face of the company to customers in the region, carrying products from first evaluation through design-in, bring-up, and volume production, and spending real time in the San Jose lab working on server platforms.

This role is based in San Jose / the Bay Area, with regular lab time and travel to customer sites across the West Coast.

Responsibilities of a Field Application Engineer (FAE):

• Serve as the first level of technical contact for Interconnect customers across the West Coast, owning issues end to end.
• Drive design-in activity from initial evaluation through bring-up, debug, qualification, and volume production ramp.
• Work hands-on in the San Jose lab: setting up server platforms, flashing modules, reproducing customer issues, and running experiments.
• Build, configure, and run product demos for trade shows and customer visits.
• Deliver product training and technical presentations to customer engineering teams and internal sales and field colleagues.
• Work with AE, engineering, CPU vendors, and IP vendors to resolve customer issues quickly and root-cause field failures.
• Run onsite customer visits, acting as the go-to technical person for your accounts.
• Feed customer requirements, competitive intelligence, and field learnings back into product definition and roadmap planning.

Requirements of a Field Application Engineer (FAE):

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years in a customer-facing engineering role (FAE, AE, or similar) in semiconductors, hardware, or a related technical industry.
• Comfortable working hands-on in a lab: board bring-up, hardware debug, and standard bench equipment.
• Strong understanding of the data center ecosystem (CSP, OEM, ODM, and similar).Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to be the technical voice in front of a customer.
• Exposure to high-speed interconnects (retimers, PCIe, SSDs), server platforms, signal integrity, or CXL/Ethernet/SerDes standards is a strong plus, not a requirement.

Benefits of a Field Application Engineer (FAE):

• $200,000 Base salary plus commission.
• Stock options.
• Direct exposure to Tier 1 CSPs and their ODM partners.
• High-impact role inside a growing product line at an established semiconductor company.