Staff Engineer, Field Applications

Analog Devices•San Jose, CA

About The Position

The Staff Engineer, Field Applications provides field applications support and serves as a system expert for customers using Analog Devices' product portfolio, with a focus on Consumer applications. The role works with customers, sales teams, and product development teams to identify opportunities, provide technical support, and position solutions tailored to customer needs to grow Analog Devices' market share. The engineer partners across sales, field applications, product line management, marketing, product development, and solutions teams. The role helps define customer solutions, communicates customer system needs, supports proposal development, and shares technical knowledge with customers and colleagues. It also contributes customer insights to product definitions and roadmaps.

Requirements

BSEE or equivalent.
7–15 years of experience in product, design, and/or field applications engineering, or equivalent.
Strong comprehension of Consumer product architectures and emerging technology trends.
Technical depth in Power Management, Vital Signs Monitoring/Optical Sensing, Battery Management, and/or Processing/DSP.
Diverse power circuit design experience at board and system level, such as switching regulators (Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost) and battery chargers.
Curiosity, resilience, and a willingness to seek data to build understanding.
Strong collaborative mindset and ability to work cross-functionally while demonstrating value to internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to operate in a team interfacing with functions including Sales, Engineering, and Marketing.
Strong communication skills, including gathering and sharing information with audiences ranging from subject matter experts to novices.
Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize and manage several concurrent projects.
Ability to coach, teach, and help others with design issues.
Experience driving prototype evaluation, debugging, and testing.
Excellent technical communication skills, including writing, presentations, listening, and phone calls.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Consumer applications.
U.S. Citizenship preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a systems expert to execute the sales strategy for Consumer.
Participate in opportunity discovery with Sales and FAEs, understanding and influencing system partitioning and solution definition.
Identify growth opportunities and work with the regional team to implement strategies to capture revenue.
Develop and maintain customer relationships in close partnership with Sales and peer FAEs.
Develop and maintain relationships with product line management, marketing, field, and application engineering teams.
Help Sales and FAE teams coordinate technical resources needed to implement solution proposals.
Propose component- and system-level solutions to customers.
Train customers and colleagues on Analog Devices' solutions and products.
Collaborate with Product Development and Solutions teams so customer insights and feedback inform new product definitions and roadmaps.
Understand and communicate customers' system needs versus wants.
Collaborate with fellow FAEs to foster knowledge sharing.