Mgr, Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

The Manager Field Applications Engineering leads the Southwest FAE team supporting strategic customers channel partners and regional growth objectives. The role aligns technical resources to priority opportunities drives design-win execution and enables long-term customer success.

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 applications teams and leadership. Success requires strong people leadership technical judgment business acumen and the ability to convert customer needs into business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Team leadership: Lead coach and develop the Southwest FAE team; set priorities deployment plans performance expectations and development goals.

Customer engagement: Build executive and engineering relationships with strategic customers; support pre-sales design-in post-design engagements reviews and escalations.

Business growth: Partner with sales to prioritize opportunities drive design wins improve funnel quality and support revenue conversion.

Cross-functional alignment: Represent customer needs field feedback product gaps and competitive threats to product marketing sales applications and business unit teams.

Operational discipline: Establish metrics reporting CRM hygiene escalation management resource planning and consistent field execution.

Qualifications :

Required 

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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.

Preferred

Experience leading distributed technical teams.

Familiarity with general Renesas Products with Digital emphasis

Experience in industrial medical automotive aerospace defense or robotics markets.

Track record of design-win growth revenue expansion and customer adoption.

Additional Information :

Success Measures

Design-win growth and revenue conversion.

Strategic account penetration and customer satisfaction.

Team development capability and retention.

Escalation responsiveness and issue resolution.

Funnel quality prioritization and field feedback impact.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries we offer the opportunity to work on worldleading technology for Automotive Industrial Infrastructure and IoT shaping a safer healthier greener and smarter future.

At Renesas TAGIE is our culture grounded in being Transparent Agile Global Innovative and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time