Job Description Player/Coach Responsibilities (Hands-On Technical Leadership)
- Serve as the senior technical interface for strategic datacenter accounts, driving system-level power architecture engagements from early concept through production.
- Provide expert leadership on digital multiphase power, power modules, and server-class power delivery architectures supporting AI accelerators, CPUs, and networking platforms.
- Personally engage in the most complex customer programs, including architecture reviews, schematic and layout feedback, validation planning, bring-up, power sequencing analysis, transient response evaluation, and debug.
- Rapidly troubleshoot complex power issues using lab instrumentation including oscilloscopes, current probes, electronic loads, and transient analysis tools.
- Lead technical escalations with internal engineering teams to ensure rapid, high-quality resolution of customer issues.
- Deliver high-quality customer-facing materials such as validation results, program updates, technical summaries, and program closure reports.
People & Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of power supply FAEs supporting strategic AI and hyperscaler customers.
- Coach FAEs on system-level power thinking, executive communication, and sound technical judgment in complex customer environments.
- Build onboarding and training plans for new college graduates and early-career FAEs, ensuring readiness for lab work and customer-facing engagements.
- Conduct performance reviews and support career development across the team.
- Guide resource allocation across accounts, balancing customer priorities, program risk, and team bandwidth.
- Establish a high-performance culture with clear standards for ownership, technical rigor, and execution quality. Hold the team accountable to outcomes and model the behaviors expected through disciplined, high-impact customer engagement.
Customer, Program & Strategy Leadership
- Own technical program execution for top datacenter customers, spanning AI accelerators, server platforms, and high-performance networking systems.
- Partner closely with Sales and GAM leadership to align customer priorities, program sequencing, and allocation of FAE resources.
- Maintain program visibility through clear tracking of milestones, risks, validation status, and next-step actions.
- Provide concise and actionable technical updates to senior leadership.
- Collaborate with Product Line and Marketing teams to translate strategic customer power requirements into product feedback and roadmap influence.
- Champion field insights related to next-generation power architectures, digital multiphase solutions, and module-based system power.
- Coordinate technical handoffs and shared engagements across global FAE teams.
Qualifications- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
- Significant prior experience as a Field Applications Engineer with hands-on responsibility for power supply or power management products.
- 8+ years of experience in power electronics, digital multiphase power delivery, server or AI platform power, or related hardware systems.
- Deep technical expertise in power modules, digital multiphase controllers, VRMs, and high-current, low-voltage conversion for datacenter platforms.
- Strong lab-based debug skills including use of oscilloscopes, current probes, electronic loads, and transient response analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to interface directly with customers on complex power topics and drive issues to closure.
- 2+ years of people leadership experience in a team lead, supervisory, managerial, or equivalent player/coach role.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to customer, executive, and internal audiences. Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting hyperscale datacenter customers such as cloud service providers or AI accelerator companies.
- Expertise in system-level power architecture for AI or ML accelerators, CPUs, or high-end networking platforms.
- Familiarity with PMBus, telemetry systems, and digitally controlled multiphase power solutions.
- Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority programs simultaneously in fast-moving customer environments.
- Demonstrated success developing early-career engineers and building high-performance technical teams.
- Strong cross-functional leadership experience working with Product Line, Marketing, Sales, or Systems Engineering organizations.
Additional InformationThe expected annual pay range for this position is $180,000K - $220,000K. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.
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