Associate Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Renesas Electronics•San Jose, CA

9d•$75,000 - $89,500•Onsite

About The Position

Renesas is seeking a highly motivated new college graduate to join its Field Applications Engineering team. The role supports strategic customers in AI, datacenter, server, networking, and high-performance computing, with a focus on power electronics, power conversion, and system-level power delivery. The engineer will work alongside experienced Field Applications Engineers and Power Systems Engineers to support customer designs, validate and characterize power solutions, troubleshoot technical issues, and help customers deploy Renesas power-management technologies. The position is based in San Jose, California, and supports customers in the Bay Area. It uses Renesas’ San Jose engineering laboratory for hands-on validation, testing, and debugging. The role involves laboratory work and periodic customer-site travel, and is not available remotely. The expected annual pay range is $75,000–$89,500, with eligibility for bonus opportunities. Renesas offers elective benefits including medical, health savings accounts, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. Benefited employees also receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, long- and short-term disability/medical benefits, paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation.

Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Power Electronics.
Recent graduate or expected to graduate within the current academic year.
Strong academic background in power electronics, analog circuit design, control systems, electronic circuits, and embedded systems.
Fundamental understanding of DC-DC converters, switching power supplies, feedback control loops, analog and mixed-signal circuits, and circuit analysis techniques.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems in a team environment.
Willingness to travel periodically to customer sites and work in a laboratory environment.
Must be located in, or willing to relocate to, the San Jose, California area.

Nice To Haves

Internship, co-op, undergraduate research, or industry experience in power electronics, power-supply design, hardware engineering, validation engineering, systems engineering, or semiconductor applications engineering.
Experience designing, building, or debugging switching power supplies.
Experience with LTspice, PSpice, SIMPLIS, MATLAB/Simulink, or Cadence extraction tools.
Experience with oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, or digital multimeters.
Experience with scripting or automation using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools.
A design project, thesis, or research related to power conversion, voltage-regulator design, battery-management systems, motor control, power integrity, or renewable-energy systems.
Familiarity with PCB design, layout considerations, and power-delivery networks.

Responsibilities

Support strategic customer programs from concept through production under the guidance of senior Field Applications Engineers.
Assist with validation, characterization, and optimization of digital multiphase power solutions used in AI, cloud, server, and networking systems.
Perform laboratory testing, including efficiency characterization, load transient testing, power sequencing validation, telemetry verification, protection-feature validation, fault analysis, root-cause investigation, and power-rail measurement.
Support customer board bring-up, power-supply debugging, and system-level validation.
Participate in schematic reviews, component selection, and PCB layout reviews for high-current power-delivery systems.
Develop technical reports, characterization summaries, validation documentation, and customer-facing presentations.
Learn and use industry-standard test equipment.
Assist in developing automated validation methods and data-analysis workflows.
Collaborate with Product Marketing, Applications Engineering, Product Line Management, and Sales on customer engagements and design-win activities.
Gain experience in customer-facing technical discussions and develop the ability to independently support customer design activities.