Field Applications Engineering Manager: Design-Win Leader

Renesas Electronics; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics seeks a Manager, Field Applications Engineering to lead the Southwest FAE team, aligning technical resources to growth opportunities and driving design-win execution.

This player-coach leader provides hands-on technical and business leadership for a senior field applications team, while directly supporting priority customer engagements and serving as a key interface across customers, sales, business units, and leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• 10+ years in semiconductors, embedded systems, FAE, applications engineering, or technical sales.
• 3+ years of people leadership, technical leadership, or management experience.
• Working knowledge of MCUs, MPUs, embedded software, connectivity, power, or system design.
• Experience supporting strategic OEM customers and channel partners.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder-influence skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Southwest FAE team; set priorities, deployment plans, performance expectations, and development goals.
• Build executive and engineering relationships with strategic customers; support pre-sales, design-in, post-design engagements, reviews, and escalations.
• Partner with sales to prioritize opportunities, drive design wins, improve funnel quality, and support revenue conversion.
• Represent customer needs, field feedback, product gaps, and competitive threats to product, marketing, sales, applications, and business unit teams.
• Establish metrics, reporting, CRM hygiene, escalation management, resource planning, and consistent field execution.

Skills

Bachelor-level degree holder knowledge

10+ years experience

People leadership

MCUs/MPUs/embedded software

OEM/channel partner experience

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Job description

Renesas Electronics seeks a Manager, Field Applications Engineering to lead the Southwest FAE team, aligning technical resources to growth opportunities and driving design-win execution.

This player-coach leader provides hands-on technical and business leadership for a senior field applications team, while directly supporting priority customer engagements and serving as a key interface across customers, sales, business units, and leadership.