What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Applications Engineer position at ON Semiconductor?
Job Description
The Field Applications Engineer (FAE) serves as a technical leader and solution architect for Americas Broad Market customers, enabling design-in and acceleration of onsemi solutions across Industrial, Automotive, and emerging high-growth segments (e.g., Energy Infrastructure, Robotics, Automation, and Electrification).
This role partners closely with Sales, Business Units, and Marketing to drive solution selling, funnel growth, and customer engagement at scale, supporting both focus accounts and mass-market expansion.
Location: San Jose
Responsibilities
Qualifications
About Us
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world's most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.
More details about our company benefits can be found here:
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About the Team
We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work.
onsemi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact for assistance.
The Field Applications Engineer (FAE) serves as a technical leader and solution architect for Americas Broad Market customers, enabling design-in and acceleration of onsemi solutions across Industrial, Automotive, and emerging high-growth segments (e.g., Energy Infrastructure, Robotics, Automation, and Electrification).
This role partners closely with Sales, Business Units, and Marketing to drive solution selling, funnel growth, and customer engagement at scale, supporting both focus accounts and mass-market expansion.
Location: San Jose
Responsibilities
- Own customer technical engagement to drive demand creation, design wins, and revenue growth across Americas Broad Market accounts.
- Lead technical solution positioning aligned to focus segments, solution campaigns, customer systems, architectures, and roadmap priorities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to customer engineering teams, influencing design decisions through presentations, demos, workshops, and hands-on engagement.
- Collaborate closely with FSE, Sales, BU, and Marketing teams to align strategy, priorities, and solution-selling initiatives.
- Drive design-win creation and funnel expansion through opportunity identification, qualification, and disciplined pipeline management.
- Provide voice-of-customer insights to influence product roadmap, NPI direction, and market-focused solution development.
- Partner globally with engineering and product teams across the Americas, Europe, and Asia to support customer needs and strategic initiatives.
- Enable distribution and channel partners through training, technical engagement, repeatable solution frameworks, and reference designs.
- Support application design, validation, troubleshooting, optimization, and issue resolution at the system level.
- Apply expertise in power, analog, and mixed-signal applications, including power conversion, power management, MOSFET, IGBT, SiC/WBG devices, motor drives, energy systems, automation, and robotics.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 5 years of experience in applications engineering, FAE, or system design
- Proven ability to support customer-facing technical engagements and design cycles
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across global teams
About Us
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world's most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.
More details about our company benefits can be found here:
;br>
About the Team
We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work.
onsemi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact for assistance.