Field Applications Engineer – West Coast Interconnect & AI

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

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.