The Director of Engineering for Field Applications (FA) is a senior leadership role that bridges technical product development with customer-facing sales support. This position is responsible for leading a team of customer facing technical resources, assist customers with design-in activities, facilitate troubleshooting activities, and contribute to the validation of power supplies (AC-DC, DC-DC, converters) in application. This leader drives technical solutions, aligns product roadmaps with customer needs, and ensures high-level support for accounts in sectors like data centers, AI, and industrial power.
Are You Looking To:
- Leadership & Team Development: Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of FAEs, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer focus.
- Strategic Technical Support: Act as a technical interface for strategic customers, helping to fit solutions to applications.
- Customer Engagement & Design Wins: Collaborate with sales teams to influence design decisions, perform schematic reviews, and drive the adoption of company power solutions.
- Product Feedback & Strategy: Provide actionable market intelligence to product engineering and marketing teams to define future product roadmaps and improve existing power products.
- Troubleshooting & Validation: Oversee lab-based testing (transients, efficiency, thermal management) and debug complex power issues for customers.
Are You Ready To:
- Own department budgets and technical resources, driving process improvement and defining best practices for documentation and technical support
- Apply deep expertise in power supply topologies (half-bridge, full-bridge, LLC, Flyback) and power semiconductors (MOSFET/IGBT, SiC/GaN)
- Lead hands-on bench-level debugging using modern test tools and instrumentation to solve complex technical issues
- Drive end-to-end execution across product development, project management, and product qualification processes
- Build and maintain strong customer technical relationships, serving as a trusted technical partner