ON Semiconductor

Senior Field Applications Engineer

ON Semiconductor$120K — $150K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in FAE, Applications Engineering, or system design
  • Expertise in high-power semiconductor applications
  • Experience in system-level customer support (design review, validation, troubleshooting)
  • Proven track record of achieving design wins
  • Strong communication, presentation, and customer interaction skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead demand creation and strategic engagement with Broad Market customers and partners
  • Own technical strategy and design-win execution for complex applications
  • Collaborate with FSE, BU, Marketing, and Sales leadership
  • Drive design-win creation and opportunity qualification
  • Provide customer insights to influence product roadmap and NPI
  • Work globally with engineering teams to support business priorities
  • Train and enable distribution and channel partners
Full Job Description
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


More details about our company benefits can be found here:

https://www.onsemi.com/careers/career-benefits

About ON Semiconductor

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Size
30,000 employees
Market Cap
$26.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$234.2 million
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$5.2 billion
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